DR200: RPC conventions - bullet items

There used to be a bullet item in DR200 which read as follows:

     * Provisions for matching response messages to request
       messages for cases in which matching is not provided
       by the underlying transport protocol.

This item was removed as a result of a conversation on the wg list, in which
it was pointed out that there were other places (specifically DR502) which
already referenced this requirement.

Bullet item 3, I believe, is also covered implicitly by DR703.

I can see removing this one too, but I'd actually rather see the other
bullet come back, since I believe both request/response matching and
explicit error handling are important features of RPC which deserve to be
called out here.

I also didn't notice any other requirement which actually covers uniquely
specifying an XP "target" in the general case.  We might want to pull bullet
item 1 out into a separate requirement which states that targets for XP
messages can be uniquely specified using URI syntax, which is important for
XP in general, not just RPC.

Glen Daniels
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Received on Wednesday, 15 November 2000 13:24:07 UTC