Re: [bt-spec] Context

[Mark Little <mark_little@hp.com>]

 

Unless we do not have good reason to send/receive Context between roles other than Initiator and Service, I think I would support Jim in this issue.. Peter, can you summarize why you think Context should be used in Superior:Inferior communications... I have not looked at the issue in detail but I think if this became an issue it should be resolved in version 1.0 since it has an impact on transaction coordination.

I think that it may be useful to introduce an explicit GET_CONTEXT message that can be directed to a coordinator from an entity that does not have the context, i.e., was not an initiator and is not a web service. However, irrespective of this there is definite merit in considering the separation of CONTEXT in this manner.

 

Mark.

 

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