"Registering Web Services in an ebXML Registry" TN - Definition of "Web Service" Still Good For Us?

I'm in the process of updating our March 2003 "Registering Web 
Services in an ebXML Registry" Technical Note for our V3.0 enhancements. Early 
on in the current version we have a definition of "Web Service" taken from the 
W3C Web Services Architecture, and I wonder if we still like 
it.

 

I know it does not 
mention CAM, but hey - we can't have everything, right? 

 

Here is the current 
definition:

 

A Web 
service is “a software system identified by a URI whose public interfaces and 
bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered 
by other software systems. These systems may then interact with the Web service 
in a manner described by its definition, using XML based messages conveyed by 
Internet protocols.” [WSA].  

 

Comments?

 

Thanks,

Joe

 

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

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