Re: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL

[Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@sun.com>]

+1

Martin W Sachs wrote:

> Yes, this is the real world and businesses that don't follow the spec are
> creating a serious interoperability exposure for themselves.  Nonetheless,
> if a message violates the intent of the creaters of the CPA (or equivalent)
> one or the other has made a serious error and processing of the message
> should not continue.
> 
> Regards,
> Marty
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> David Fischer <david@drummondgroup.com> on 11/08/2001 10:19:07 PM
> 
> To:    Dan Weinreb <dlw@exceloncorp.com>, arvola@tibco.com
> cc:    Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:    RE: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL
> 
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> 
> I find myself outnumbered so I will acquiesce -- with one final comment.
> 
> Businesses in the real world don't like strict rules.  I think this will
> fail,
> or more likely implementors will not follow the spec.
> 
>   - David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Weinreb [mailto:dlw@exceloncorp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:07 PM
> To: arvola@tibco.com
> Cc: mwsachs@us.ibm.com; david@drummondgroup.com;
> ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [ebxml-msg] Question about OPTIONAL
> 
> 
>    Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:07:47 -0800
>    From: Arvola Chan <arvola@tibco.com>
> 
>    I vote for option 1: Stop processing and send back an Error --
>    NotSupported/Error.
> 
> I agree, and with the rest of what you said.
> 
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