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  1. OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile (WS-DD) TC
  2. WSDD-5

DPWS - Add a description language for relating device types and service types

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Status: Open
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Fix Version/s: None
    • Component/s: DPWS Specification
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      DPWS is lacking a description mechanism and language to describe the relationship between a device type and the hosted services hosted by a device implementing this type. For instance, a printer conformant to a standardized printer type should always expose the same set of mandatory hosted services, plus maybe a set of standard and non-standard optional hosted services. There is no standard language (similar in purpose to the abstract part of WSDL) to describe this relationship. WSDL itself does not seem applicable to a device. Today, the solution is to rely on out-of-band information to establish the link between an interface exposed by a hosted service (e.g. a PrintService interface/port type) and the device type that must be used in the Probe request to retrieve the appropriate device hosting the hosted service.

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            • Assignee:
              antoine.mensch Antoine Mensch (Inactive)
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              antoine.mensch Antoine Mensch (Inactive)
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