Given the discussions generated over the last few weeks about the
shape/content and future of any BTP specification, and the delays to any
attempts to adopt, we the undersigned wish to call a formal vote on the
following issue, to be resolved at the next teleconference on 11th of
October 2001:
The Technical Committee confirms the scope as determined by
the last San Jose face-to-face in late July and the subsequent quorate
and minuted teleconference of 16 August, namely:
To define the interoperable messages to be sent between
initiators and the factory, terminators and coordinators/composers,
enrollers and superiors, superiors and inferiors (including the roles
and responsibilities of sub-coordinators and sub-composers in a
transaction tree), and the relationship of contexts and replies to
application messages, plus facilities for recovery including message
redirection, and compounding capability to allow one-shot optimization
and one-wire topology. A concrete binding to SOAP and
SOAP-with-attachments is included. Partial role-based conformance is
defined.
and further resolves to close discussion on issues of scope
in the interests of rapid adoption of the Committee
Specification.
Mark Little (HP), Jim Webber (HP), Eric Newcomer (IONA),
Pyounguk Cho (IONA), Alex Ceponkus, Alastair Green (Choreology), Peter
Furniss (Choreology), Bill Pope, James Tauber (Bowstreet)
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