Re: TBTF: Issue 102: Clarify Rules for Delivering Fault Messages

+1 on the proposed resolution.

Marc.

Williams, Stuart wrote:

>On today's TBTF Telcon the TBTF broadly agreed that the responsibility for
>defining the rules for delivering fault messages generated during a SOAP
>message exchange rests with message exchange pattern specifications.
>
>I picked up the action to review our current working draft [1,2] to
>determine whether they artiuclate a requirement that an MEP specification
>MUST include a description of rules to applied to the delivery of fault
>messages when the corresponding MEP is in operation.
>
>Currently the SOAP Protocol Binding Framework [3] does NOT articulate such a
>requirement on MEP specifications, although it should be noted that the
>Request Response MEP description at [4] does infact specify the rules for
>the delivery of faults when that MEP is in operation.
>
>
>I would like to make the following proposal which I hope will lead to the
>closure of Issue 102.
>
>Part 1 Section 5.3 "Binding Framework" [5] states:
>
><quote>
>
>As described above, SOAP can be augmented with optional features, (such as
>reliable message delivery, request/response MEPs, multicast MEPs, etc.). The
>specification of each such feature MUST include the following:
>
>1. The information (state) required at each node to implement the feature.
>
>2. The processing required at each node in order to fulfill the obligations
>of the feature.
>
>3. The information transmitted from node to node, and in the case of MEPs,
>any requirements to generate additional messages (such as responses to
>requests in a request/response MEP).
>
></quote>
>
>I propose that the third list item be amended as follows:
>
><proposedText>
>3. The information transmitted from node to node, and in the case of MEPs,
>
>>>rules for the delivery or other disposition of SOAP faults generated
>>>
>during the operation of the MEP and<< any requirements to generate
>additional messages (such as responses to requests in a request/response
>MEP). 
></proposedText>
>
>Regards
>
>Stuart Williams
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
>[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2/
>[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#transpbindframew
>[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part2/#ND5B
>[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#NA90
>

Received on Wednesday, 30 January 2002 08:06:32 UTC