Re: [provision] Async execution (was"Re: [provision] Asynchronous requests").

[Jeff Larson <Jeffrey.Larson@Sun.COM>]

Jeff Bohren wrote:

>I apologize for not commenting on this earlier. I have been extremely
>tied up with other things. 
>
>Anyway I agree with most of Gary's suggestions, with the exception of 4.
>If a requestor specifies asynchronous, the provider should be allowed to
>process the request synchronously and indicate so in the results. Since
>the spec can not enforce that a provider actually process anything
>asynchronously, there is no reason that this should not be allowed. 
>
>Also I would qualify 1 by stating that status requests and cancel
>request can not be asynchronous. That could result in an infinite
>recursive loop.
>
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>
A agree with both points.
Jeff