Re: Off topic but relevant

>>Burdett: There's a whole bunch of things like "identification of choreography
>>instance" that can usefully be defined just once and then used by everybody.
>>I'd include in this the following additional information that needs to go in
>>a (SOAP) message (there are probably more):
>>1. Message Id - a unique id for a message
>>2. RefToMessage Id - a way of identifying an earlier message to which this
>>message relates - useful for identifying messages in error
>>3. Conversation Id - which is really a choreography instance id as it
>>identifies a set of related messages
>>4. Creation Time - the time a message was initially created
>>5. Expiry Time - the time after which the recipient of a SOAP message should
>>no longer process it.
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>Lafon: Message Ids, and time information, although very useful may not be easy to
>define in an absolute manner. A requirement to have globally unique MsgIds
>is too restrictive to be acceptable, as some devices won't be able to
>generate them (and it puts restriction on choreographies using such Ids).
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>>Burdett: I've actually got a couple of specs that define the above as SOAP headers.
>>Is anyone interested in taking them further ... to OASIS perhaps ... on a
>>royalty free basis of course?
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>Lafon: I would be interested to see them, why not involve XMLP as well?
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mm1: I believe, if only informally, this discussion has occurred in 
XMLP.  Dave, can you please re-address this with XMLP and let us 
concentrate on what is our primary objective? Thanks.

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Received on Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:47:23 UTC