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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