On Apr 04, Jon MacLaren loaded a tape reading:
Hi Karl,
Some miscellaneous comments on the revised spec. Comments on symmetry and signed agreements to follow. (I may listen in on the telecon, but I am aware that this will not get round to people in time to be widely read before it happens.)
S1.1.1 - P6 - Composability with negotiation models. I never understood this either. How would you "base" a negotiation protocol which required some sort of lengthy interaction on WS-Agreement? I wondered if this just meant that the document format would be used, and that a different, unrelated messaging protocol would be used. I'd love to see an example of what this means.
I think that is right, at least in the sense that the AgreementFactory messages would not come into play. I do think that an Agreement could appear (or disappear) as a result of this external protocol, so that introspection based on WS-Agreement could happen. Whether this makes sense or not would require a judgement call that is hard to make in the abstract... karl -- Karl Czajkowski karlcz@univa.com