[bt-spec] Call for email vote: BT TC issue 14

[William Z Pope <zpope@pobox.com>]

This is a call for an email vote on the proposed resolution included
below for BT TC issue # 14
The voting period is one week, seven days, commencing Dec 3, 2001
and closing at your local midnight on Dec 10, 2001

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Issue URL
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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/business-transactions/issues.html#Issue14

Issue
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minor editorial

Proposed Resolution
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Page 12 2nd para:
Change 
  "A Inferior:Superior relationship ..." 
to 
  "An Inferior:Superior relationship ..." 

Page 12, Para 3, Sentence 3:
Change
  "The particular mechanisms by which a CONTEXT is "related" to
  application ..." 
to
  "The particular mechanisms by which a CONTEXT is related to an
  application ..."  

Page 16, Para 4, Sentence 1:
Change
  "A Superior may be Atomic or Cohesive.  An Atomic Superior will
  apply the same decision to all of its Inferiors; a Cohesive Superior
  can apply confirm some Inferiors and cancel to others, ..." 
to
  "A Superior may be Atomic or Cohesive.  An Atomic Superior will
  apply the same decision to all of its Inferiors; a Cohesive Superior
  can apply confirm to some Inferiors and cancel to others, ..." 


Page 19 Para 4 Sentence 4:
Change
  "As the previous, but other access to the affected data if forbidden
  until the decision is known" 
to
  "As the previous, but other access to the affected data is forbidden
  until the decision is known"   

Page 20 Para 4 Sentence 2:
Change
  "How the confirm-set is controlled, and when is not defined in this
  specification." 
to
  "How the confirm-set is controlled, and when, is not defined in this
  specification."  

Page 20 Para 6 Sentence 3:
  insert "of"
Change
  "If the Terminator asks the Decider to confirm the business
  transaction, it is the responsibility the Decider ..."
to
  "If the Terminator asks the Decider to confirm the business
  transaction, it is the responsibility of the Decider ..."   

Page 20 Para last Sentence 1:
Change
 "An Decider also REQUEST_STATUS and ..." 
to
 "A Decider also receives a REQUEST_STATUS and ..." 

Page 27 Para 2 Sentence 2nd last:
Change
  "... otherwise the Service cannot determine that is should bundle
  the messages together." 
to
  "... otherwise the Service cannot determine that it should bundle
  the messages together."   

Page 27 Para 2 Sentence last:
Change
  "One-shot is thus a specialisation of one-wire." 
to
  "One-shot is thus a specialization of one-wire." 

Page 29 Para 5 Sentence last:
Change
  "The "superior type" parameter identifies whether the Superior will
  apply the same decision to all Inferiors enrolled with using the
  same superior identifier ("superior type" is "atom") or may apply 
  different decisions ("superior type" is "cohesion")."   
to
  "The "superior type" parameter identifies whether the Superior will
  apply the same decision to all Inferiors enrolled by using the same 
  superior identifier ("superior type" is "atom") or it may apply
  different decisions ("superior type" is "cohesion")."  

Page 38 Para last Sentence 2:
Change
  "The level of isolation is a local matter (i.e. is the Inferiors
  choice, as constrained by the shared understanding of the
  application exchanges) ..."  
to
  "The level of isolation is a local matter (i.e. it is the Inferiors
  choice, as constrained by the shared understanding of the
  application exchanges) ..."  

Page 50 :
Change
  "targtted." 
to
  "targeted" 

Page 64 :
  insert "to"
Change
  "An implementation receiving a *_STATE message with
  "reply_requested" as "true" is not required to reply immediately -
  it may choose delay any reply until a decision event occurs ..."
to
  "An implementation receiving a *_STATE message with
  "reply_requested" as "true" is not required to reply immediately -
  it may choose to delay any reply until a decision event occurs ..."   

Page 66:
Change
  "The term "remaining Inferiors" are any actors to which this endpoint ..." 
to
  "The term "remaining Inferiors" refers to any actors to which this
  endpoint ..."  

Page 70 Para 4 Sentence last:
  remove "that"
Change
  "... there is no requirement to make the BTP state information more
  persistent that than the application information." 
to
  "... there is no requirement to make the BTP state information more
  persistent than the application information."  

Page 121 Para 4 Sentence last - in glossary, Service:
Change 
  "An actor which on receipt of an application messages may start an
  application operation which is appropriate ..."  
to
  "An actor, which on receipt of an application messages, may start an
  appropriate application operation."  



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Regards,
TC chair

William Z Pope
zpope@pobox.com