[graap-wg] updated draft - symmetry

Jon MacLaren maclaren at cct.lsu.edu
Tue Apr 5 14:35:42 CDT 2005


One last point...

On Apr 5, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Karl Czajkowski wrote:
> On Apr 04, Jon MacLaren loaded a tape reading:
>> ...
>> (Incidentally, I still feel, and always have, that there are
>> obligations on both sides in reality.  The consumer is agreeing to
>> consume the service, e.g. provide the work in the case of the job
>> submission example, and also to provide payment of some sort.  I note
>> that the specification still views that all obligations are on the 
>> side
>> of the service provider.)
>>
>
> I agree with you that there are obligations on both sides, but I do
> not think the group nor the specification says otherwise.  If
> anything, it just isn't explicit enough yet.  So this is a
> presentation issue, not a debate which needs to be settled...

What kind of obligations can you have on the initiator side if "the 
obligations in the agreement are not dependent on the initiator being 
informed of the decision"?

I can't reconcile these two ideas.

Jon.





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