Web Services Addressing - Core

<a> Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages. Web Services Addressing Core (this document) defines a set of abstract properties and an XML Infoset [XML Information Set [p.15] ] representation thereof to identify Web service endpoints and to secure end-to-end identification of endpoints in messages. This specification enables messaging systems to support message transmission through networks that include processing nodes such as endpoint managers, firewalls, and gateways in a transport-neutral m nner. Status of this Document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/. This is the First Public Working Draft of the Web Services Addressing Core specification for review by W3C members and other interested parties. It has been produced by the Web Services Addressing Working Group (WG), which is part of the W3C Web Services Activity .