[wsdm][uplat] Transactions

["Andrea Westerinen" <andreaw@cisco.com>]

Title: Message

Definition:

A "unit of work" that consists of multiple actions against a single resource, the same action applied to multiple resources, or multiple actions against multiple resources.  The "unit of work" should be executed once and only once, even if due to transmission failures or other errors, the request may be received multiple times.

 

Reasons to include:

Grouping actions against resources and assuring their execution/failure is very valuable.  Activities such as IETF's NetConf discuss "transactions".  The goal is for MUWS to be a superset of the functionality in NetConf - avoiding the need for multiple protocols/solutions in implementations.

 

Andrea