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document use rules apply. Abstract<a> Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages. Web Services Addressing 1.0- Core (this document) defines a set of abstract properties and an XML Infoset [XML Information Set [p.14] ] representation thereof to reference Web services and to facilitate end-to-end addressing 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 manner. 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 a