[wsrp-comment] Comment on Today's Joint Interfaces Working Telecon

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

Unless I had cotton in my ears, I think we neared consensus on what a 
Session is for the purposes of having a sessionID for the interface. 
Correct me please if I am wrong, but I believe we arrived at a point 
where we can say that what we mean by Session is the conversation 
started by one end-user requesting service from one consumer, such 
that a sessionID is created by the consumer whose responsibility it 
is to manage this session/conversation with the end-user,  providing 
for delivery of service from one or more producers.

There was also a related concept put forward for consideration called 
a sharedSession. This concept had many possible configurations, but 
the basic idea was that something like this was needed, in addition 
to transientEntities for economical management of multiple portlets 
within containers, multiple producers within a session, etc.

TransientEntities and sharedSessions were not quite narrowed down 
enough for consensus to emerge, and I may be mistaken about 
sessionID, but we certainly worked tenaciously at the interface 
issues.

Thanks,
Rex
--