[ebBP] Tell 6/14/2004: Business Contract Requirements for StateAlignment

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Today's ebBP call surrounded how we ensure (as much as practical) state 
alignment. Kenji Nagahashi proposed we provide additional constraints on 
web services (top-down approach - business process to web services).  We 
would like to more fully discuss the business contract requirements 
related to: State alignment and business signals.  Here are some of the 
questions that arose (from John Yunker particularly):

    * How do signals give you state alignment? How do we get certainty
      from a business perspective?
    * How does the contract layer use the state alignment will help us
      relate the special business timeouts to the technical signal
      receipt.BPSS provides a semantic to the contract layer.  The
      business level timeouts in addition to the protocol level have to
      be recognized.
    * How does the contract layer use the state alignment. This will
      help us relate the special business timeouts to the technical
      signal receipt. [1]

The bullets above can form the agenda (subject to team input).  Any 
member is welcomed to attend. Those expressing an interest today were: 
Yunker, Dubray, Nagahashi and Moberg (and myself).

You have indicated you would be available Friday and Monday (6/21). 
Let's try, as discussed: 

    * 877 330 9868, international 909 472 3386, when prompted hit **,
      then passcode 09868. 
    * Time: 9 a.m. PDT, 6 p.m. CET, 18 June 2004.
    * Agenda above.

Thanks.
[1] Steve Capell, RedWahoo question.