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Comment-ID Title Posted By Status Resolution/Discussion
1 Changing Offers Toshiyuki Nakata Resolved Treat the normative part as correct.
2 Minor comments & asynchronous operations[ Reply ] Takuya Araki On discussion Discuss on the mailing-list.
(especially wrt . Having it in the protocol or having it in the bindings)
3 Semantics of related agreements ill-defined[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved (14thFeb) Related agreements agreed last weeks to be taken out, but some discussion was still going on.  Not enough further argument to
change this decision.  **Could be a primer issue as used in a service description term.
4 How do we know that terms are fulfilled?[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved (15thFeb) This seems to be outside the scope as it requires lots of further infrastructure. **Action: Add such information in the spec that says that enforcement is outside the scope.
5 Why is the termination time part of context?[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved Because the expiration time refers to the whole of Agreement. **Action: leave it in place, capture this discussion, add justifying statements to the document.
6 ZeroOrMore needed[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved Unless someone gives a clear Usecase of how this term is used, stick to the current proposal.
7 Specification too complex[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved Spec. doesn't require that entire thing be used in every example, so complexity can be removed in specific cases.  This can be more clearly stated.  **Action: Can also reply that actual number of structures is not all that large.
8 AgreementIsProvider attribute[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved(23rd Feb)  Wewill augment the guarantee terms with which party is obligated and the obligee for each guarantee by role (initiator or provider).  Alsoimplies a response to issue #32.  Now that obligation is specific,there's no need for the AgreementInitiatorIsServiceConsumer flag in the context.
9 Related Agreements and Brokers[ Reply ] Heiko Ludwig (GGF12) Resolved Related agreements to be removed, and we only address two party agreements. 
**Action: Respond in tracker that we don't address this question. 
10 Referred Specs[ Reply ] Komori Hitoshi Resolved We need to be explict about the state of the specs. that we refer to,including their version.  Be clear where these are public but not ratified by any standards body.  Update table on page 6 (section1.1.1).  Remove the MAY be composed entries.  Add column where we areexplict about version that will be used.  (Revisit this at beginning of next week).
28th Feb. Not used the spec., but followed the model is another category as in the case of WS-Policy.
 **Action: use table provided by Toshi in e-mail of 2/28/05 to replace the current table on page 6.
11 Three "nits" Jon MacLaren Resolved "- Reference to JSDL: **Action: Do not add to avoid confusion with referring to other in progress specs.
- Colors on figures: **Action: Change to gray shades.  Heiko to do this.
- Update Jon's Affiliation: **Action: Will be done by Heiko.
12 WS-Agreement spec - proposed refactoring Jon MacLaren Resolved? Proposed that the agreement document structure be separated from any of the supporting services/port-types. 
**Action: For at least one first time reader, it seems at the proper granularity. Concern that it will result in "chasing document" if we split it any further though from a purely technical perspective this would be possible and perhaps sound.
13 Consistency of WSRF ResProp. based monitoring Jon MacLaren Resolved The only thing that can change is the term states because there is no updates.  So, there is no concern for consistency, and no need for consistent updates.  **Action: Respond that we don't think this is a concern in the follow up.
14 WS-Agreement dependent on less mature specs Jon MacLaren Resolved cf Entry 10
15 Use of WS-ResourceProperties Jon MacLaren Being Discussed Our approach will be to support port-types consistent with the convention used in WS-ResourceProperty.
  **Action: Will be re-addressed on the next call.  Also find out what the state of WS-RP is.
16 Organisation of runtime monitoring material Jon MacLaren Resolved(7th Mar) We wil add these snippets
Heiko will add these by copying from the full schema in the appendix.
17 No XML snippets for Resource Properties in S8 Jon MacLaren Resolved(7th Mar) We wil add these snippets
Heiko will add these by copying from the full schema in the appendix.
18 Inconsistent use of expiration / termination Jon MacLaren Being Discussed Superceded by subsequent discussion on lifecycle which is to
be addressed.
19 Figure 2    Tiziana Ferrari Resolved(7th Mar) **Action: Change "Service Description Terms" into "Service Terms" in figure 2.  Make similar changes in 4.2 as far as terminology.  Change service description terms to service terms and add sentence introducing the different sub-types of service terms. Completed by Jim on-line.
20 glossary and Figure 1    Tiziana Ferrari Resolved(7th Mar) Glossary to the front:  **Action: We will move glossary to the beginning as suggested a couple times.  Figure 1 labels: **Action: add the initiator label.  Completed by Jim on-line.
21  comments about Section 7 (run time states)    Tiziana Ferrari Being Discussed Is our state model extensible is an important question.  For
example, "Not Ready" is not always a needed state.  What we'd like to
do is update the overall state diagram.  We need to introduce an
initial state.  Processing is removed as a top-level state, and can be
considered a sub-state of Ready.  Transition from either "Not Ready"
or "Ready" to "Completed" is possible.  **Action: update the state
diagram and description text.  Try to find a better word than
"Completed."  **Asit to own the updates.
22 definition of compliance in Section 6    Tiziana Ferrari To Be Discussed  
23  Language problem in Section 5.1.1    Tiziana Ferrari Resolved(7th Mar) **Action: Corrected by Jim on-line.
24 creation contraints and serv. lev. Objectives    Tiziana Ferrari Partially Resolved Discussion: yes, this is what we have done.  **Action: Send request for clarifying e-mail to Tiziana to make sure that we're  understanding the request correctly, ideally pointing to an example in the doc.  Heiko will contact her.
25  Occurance of AssessmentInterval in Comp.Type Heiko Ludwig To Be Discussed  
26  TerminalFault    Tiziana Ferrari    
27 Agreement name optional   Mike Fisher    
28 Consistent approach to Term Compositors   Mike Fisher    
29 Guarantee Terms   Mike Fisher   Response is that there is nothing else today, so this is an approach  we suggest.  This specification can considered optional in the sense that  one need not include guarantee terms at all, but is useful in some
  domains we've looked at..
**Action: update section   4.2 to make the definition of new term types possible, and update
    the pseudo-schema in 4.2.1, and introduce a new-subsection before   the compositor definition.
30 Include base objective set for web services Asit Dan    
31 ServiceProvider / ServiceCustomer explicit Heiko Ludwig Resolved(23rd Feb) cf Entry 8
32 Obliged party attribute for terms Heiko Ludwig Resolved(23rd Feb) cf Entry 8
33  Explain service reference use better Heiko Ludwig    
34 Refining scope of Guarantee Terms Heiko Ludwig    
35 Guarantee terms for best effort systems Heiko Ludwig    
36 Business Value Table Heiko Ludwig    
Other issues being Discussed
1 Signature of Agreement Karl and Jon Being Discussed in the ML This
requires some extensibility on the input and output to the create
agreement operations.  Perhaps already covered in the current
versions.  **Action: Karl to review the current spec. in this area.
2 how to specify the criticality of an
extension
Karl   That is, would an extension have to be processed, or may
it be safely ignored if a provider doesn't understand them.  Is there
a community best-practice alredy in place or needed for this?
3 acceptance port type Karl Resolved? This is explictly an initiator side port type.  Do
  we need to call this out very clearly since we have not had
  initiator side port types previously.  This is somewhat called out
  at the start of sec. 9, but adding a comment here in 9.3 would be
  good. 
4 Creation faults Karl   On creation operation, should we provide some general structure for
  faults (e.g. pointers to failed terms).  We have at least two types
  of fault: could not understand the input, input understood, but not
  able to satisfy where this one could include pointers in to the input
  document plus some extensibility on the cause.This would be a bit
  of a hint, and does not imply anything concrete, or head down the
  slope of negotiation. **Action: this added to the comment list by
  Jim, would like to see a proposal here.
5 Termination Toshi   Is WS-RF
  termination good enough, and the terminate operation could fail or
  be delayed because the agreement is not "completed" yet.  Further
  termination could be done as extension.  We could define an
  extension on the resource lifetime termination operation saying that
  we cannot terminate now because the agreement is on-going.  Do we
  advocate in the spec. that the agreement resource SHOULD live as
  long as the obligations associated with the agreement?  Consensus on
  the list is that this makes sense.