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Bug 7827 - All: Text implies that GetMetadata will always be supported
Summary: All: Text implies that GetMetadata will always be supported
Status: CLOSED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: WS-Resource Access
Classification: Unclassified
Component: All (show other bugs)
Version: FPWD
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2009-10-07 13:46 UTC by Katy Warr
Modified: 2015-06-20 16:35 UTC (History)
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Description Katy Warr 2009-10-07 13:46:41 UTC
Our text for the resolution of 6721 (attaching policy to implicit operations) implies that an endpoint will always support Mex.GetMetadata.

Here is the text from WS-Transfer:

"An endpoint MAY indicate that it supports WS-Transfer, or its features, by including the WS-Transfer Policy assertion within its WSDL. By doing so the endpoint is indicating that the corresponding WS-Transfer operations are supported by that endpoint even though they do not explicitly appear in its WSDL (i.e. retrievable by using a WS-MetadataExchange GetMetadata with a Dialect IRI of http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/). "

The  last sentence in brackets:
"(i.e. retrievable by using a WS-MetadataExchange GetMetadata with a Dialect IRI of http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/)." 
implies that the GetMetadata must be supported by the endpoint.

Proposal

Change the text slightly to:
"(i.e. the WSDL that MAY be retrievable by using a WS-MetadataExchange GetMetadata with a Dialect IRI of http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/)."
Comment 1 Robert Freund 2009-10-13 22:43:25 UTC
2009-10-13 resolved as proposed
Comment 2 Jackie 2015-06-20 16:34:35 UTC
Please make my changes
Comment 3 Jackie 2015-06-20 16:35:23 UTC
Please make my changes