Hi John, Is this a recoverable failure? Such a scenario, in which there are no data plane issues but a failure is recoverable, is not considered in the state machine. If it is not recoverable, use forced_end. Such failures which are not caused by data plane can happen any time, not only when a message is exchanged. If we are going to make them recoverable, state machine may become very complicated. This particular case may be solved in v2.0 since we will move up confirm message to the time when a request is received (new state machine is my homework, but it is not easy. may be we have time to discuss during SC). Tomohiro 2011/11/8 John MacAuley <john.macauley@surfnet.nl>:

State machine is in the reserved state. It is before startTime. I receive a prov.rq but encounter a processing failure.

At the moment the state machine says I can only send a prov.fl after startTime and can only transition back to the Scheduled state.  How should I handle this scenario?  My first instinct is to transition back to Reserved since it is still before startTime.

Comments?

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