RE: [bt-spec] BTP Issue 39 : Resigning Inferior

[Peter Furniss <peter.furniss@choreology.com>]

 

BTP Issue 39 : Resigning Inferior

Submitter: Mark Little, HP
Category: minor editorial
Submitter's identification: #8
Description:
Page 16, change text to read: "An inferior can remove itself from a given Superior:Inferior relationship by resigning (sending a RESIGN message). If RESIGN is received from an Inferior, and the Inferior is allowed to leave the protocol, then the Superior:Inferior relationship is ended; the Inferior has no further effect on the behaviour of the Superior as a whole."

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(original text was: If RESIGN is received from an Inferior, the Superior:Inferior relationship is ended; the Inferior has no further effect on the behaviour of the Superior as a whole.  )

 

The main significance of the change seems to be allowing for the Superior to refuse the resignation. There isn't any mechanism to do this - if a Superior receives RESIGN/rsp-req, all it can do is send RESIGNED, unless it has already decided to cancel (this Inferior at least), when it will send CANCEL if hasn't already. All of these end the relationship.

 

Or is the point that, if this is RESIGN/rsp-req the relationship is not ended immediately but only when the Superior replies ? If there is active phase recovery of some sort, the receipt of the RESIGN could be forgotten.  That would appear as a disruption event from C1 going to B1. (making this a minor technical issue).