Asynchronous requests and conformance...

["Jeff Bohren" <jbohren@opennetwork.com>]

 

Does an SPML Web Service need to support asynchronous requests in order to be conformant? Asynchronous requests are probably not an issue for a provisioning system acting as a PSP, especially if work flow is involved. But they may present too much overhead for a PST. I would like to make two motions for discussion at the next telecon:

 

Motion 1:

 

If a client specifies a request as synchronous, the service MUST process the request in a synchronous fashion or it MUST return an error.

 

Motion 2:

 

If a client specifies a request as asynchronous, the service MAY process the request synchronously and return the results in the response.

 

Jeff Bohren

Product Architect

OpenNetwork Technologies, Inc