[Fwd: Issue 041: Seemingly arbitrary reactions to protocol errors]

[Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>]

Fourth reposting.

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Subject:	Issue 041: Seemingly arbitrary reactions to protocol errors
Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:32:55 +0100
From:	Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>
To:	ws-tx@lists.oasis-open.org <ws-tx@lists.oasis-open.org>

Question:

Why does reception of Committed during Preparing by Coordinator View 
lead to state Aborting, when reception of Committed during Prepared 
Success leads to "same state", i.e staying in Prepared Success?

Turn the question around:

If Committed might be the right answer, but it comes before the question 
has been asked, why treat it as the wrong answer while preparing, but as 
a potentially correct answer when prepared?

Supplementary question:

Did the authors intend to accommodate races between the coordinator and 
over-eager participants?

Alastair