[ebxml-msg] Propasal to prevent ACK bundling

[ian.c.jones@bt.com]

A proposal was accepted during the last conference call to remove the
ability to bundle acks with a unrelated response message.  The details of
the proposal and its affect are below.  This is the final opportunity to
comment as the cal voted to accept the changes described and they will be
incorporated in future work unless objections are raised before the
conference call on January 8th 2003.

Detailed proposal
1 - The errata document will state that The existing MessageData /
RefToMessageId element MUST be identical the Acknowledgment / RefToMessageId
element .
2 - The errata document will contain a warning that the Acknowledgment /
RefToMessageId element was being deprecated and was scheduled for removal in
future releases.
3 - Future versions will not support the feature.

The implication:
Currently it is permissible to send a message containing many acknowledgment
messages for many different messages that do no have to be related in
anyway. (This has been an implementation issues)  This proposal will remove
this ability such that a message may contain only one acknowledgement and it
must for the message that any associated response message is also included
in this message package.

For further details please review the messages in this list for the past
months (the summary and formulation of the proposal starts in Doug Buntings
e-mail of October 26) and the appropriate meeting minutes.

Ian Jones
Chair OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC 

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