Issue 071 - WS-BA: Remove "presumed nothing" requirement

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From: Peter Furniss [mailto:peter.furniss@erebor.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:12 PM
To: ws-tx@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [ws-tx] new issue : WS-BA: Remove "presumed nothing" requirement

Issue name -- WS-BA: Remove “presumed nothing” requirement.

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Target document and draft:

Protocol: WS-BA

Artifact: spec

Draft: BA spec cd 2

Link to the document referenced:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/18819/wstx-wsba-1.1-spec-cd-02.doc

Section and PDF line number: section 1 , line 35

Issue type: Design/editorial

Related issues:

Issue Description:

Reliable recording of state transitions should not be required.

Issue Details

The statement “All state transitions are reliably recorded, including application state and coordination metadata” should not be required. Making it a requirement imposes unnecessary overhead and is unnecessarily constraining on implementations.
WS-BA can perform all of its design goals using presumed abort - i.e. only reliably recording at Completion time (for a participant), at Close time (for a coordinator). Implementation can conform with state tables and interwork
seemlessly using presumed abort without observing above requirement.

Proposed resolution

Delete line 35.

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