Service model Telecon, August 30, 2001
Updated: August 30, 2001 12:59 - Page Maintained by Allan Doyle

Agenda in blue, discussion during telecon in black, action items in red

Present

Allan Doyle, International Interfaces
Arliss Whiteside, BAE Systems
George Percivall, NASA/GST
Jeff Lansing, Polexis
Jeff de La Beaujardiere. NASA/DE
Archie Warnock, AWCubed
John Davidson, OGC
John Evans, NASA/GST
Doug Nebert, FGDC
Jerome Sonnet, IONIC

Agenda

1. Review of key happenings

* Allan's terms

Allan to write up something that talks about this. Jeff L. suggests examples would be good.

* Jeff Lansing's WSDL

Jeff's digging has exposed two problems that stand in the way of our preservation of HTTP GET.
1) there is no way to have optional input parameters.
2) No way to say what the type of the result is when you're not getting XML back since things like image/jpeg are outside the type system.

WSDL community is very focused on SOAP and are unlikely to be dealing with large binary blobs.

What if we use WSDL only for GetCapabilities, i.e. discover the service with WSDL then use non-WSDL responses.

Need to think about ways to work around or within WSDL.

Maybe encoding is not so bad. We need to look into this some more.

Question is how does this impact existing WMS's?

Isn't there an extension mechanism for WSDL?

Look at the UDDI site for possible white papers about use of WSDL (George's version is 1.05).

* David O'Mahony's metadata mapping

Jeff DLB - Service Title and Layer Title are mapped into same item (Citation Title) on the search response. This needs to be resolved. No other showstoppers right now, but people need more time to look at it. There may be a problem with the bounding box mapping.

2. Prepare for OGC meeting (George and Doug)

Possible agenda
- Service Model Activity - Peter V?
- overview of OWS RFQ Appendix B: General Services Model (Davidson)

This is really Appendix B of Annex B. You can find the "official" version here and Allan's HTML version here.

- Service Model: Concept Overview (01-058) - Galdos
- Topic 12 update and change request - Percivall

Final text for 19119 was released by ISO - this request is to update Topic 12. George proposes to replace that part of Topic 12 that contains the previous version of 19119.

- ISO TC211 Advisory Group on Web Server Interfaces (Mellinger)

Doug to ping Peter, Lou, and Ron to make sure they can present. Make sure there are 2 hours.

3. Other status

* WSDL implementations
* Catalog issues
* Chaining

4. Schedule next telecon

September 19 - 1100 Eastern

Discussion

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