RE: Support for WS-Management's RequestEPR feature

The WS-RA WG reviewed your issue on "Transfer: Support for 
WS-Management's RequestEPR feature" [1] on May 11th [2] and 12th [3] 
2010, during its face to face meeting. After discussion, the WG agreed 
to close this issue with no changes to the WS-Transfer specification. 
The following points were made:

   1. This is a broader issue, in that it affects more than the
      WS-Transfer Put operation. There are many operations and events
      which could also cause such an EPR change - as such this an issue
      that is bigger than what WS-RA is chartered to work on. For
      example, if a Transfer Put induced state change on a resource
      results it a change of its EPR, then that same EPR might change
      due to state changes due to other stimuli associated with the
      resource.
   2. In such an environment, we suggest that using a specific event
      report notification, perhaps defined as part of WS-Management,
      such as "state change induced EPR change", would be a better
      solution. Using a notification would allow all parties which need
      to track EPR changes to register for receiving that event report.

Please indicate via an email response as to whether this resolution of 
your issue is satisfactory.

[1]http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9607

[2]http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/05/2010-05-11.html

[3]http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/05/2010-05-12.html

[4]mailto:public-ws-resource-access-comments@w3.org