1.1 Glossary

This document uses the following terms:

endpoint: A node that sends or receives a protocol stream.

envelope record: A record that contains data, such as a SOAP message. For more information about envelope records, see [SOAP1.1] and [SOAP1.2-1/2007].

Initiating Stream: The protocol stream that flows from the initiator.

initiator: The node that initiates the connection over which a protocol stream flows.

little-endian: Multiple-byte values that are byte-ordered with the least significant byte stored in the memory location with the lowest address.

Property Record: A record that contains a protocol stream property.

protocol stream: A continuous stream of records flowing in one direction.

protocol stream property: A protocol stream characteristic that can be set by a property record and that applies to subsequent records flowing with the protocol stream.

receiver: The node that is the receiver of the protocol stream.

record: A sequence of octets.

Unicode: A character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium that represents almost all of the written languages of the world. The Unicode standard [UNICODE5.0.0/2007] provides three forms (UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32) and seven schemes (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16 BE, UTF-16 LE, UTF-32, UTF-32 LE, and UTF-32 BE).

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.