[graap-wg] proposal: stateful async agreement

[Toshiyuki Nakata]

The other option might be to
pass the EPR of the Agreement as a parameter...
Best regards
Toshi


Toshiyuki Nakata wrote:

> Sorry to ask many snippets of questions rather than chunk them to gether.
>
> If an initiator issed five different createPendingAgreement operations,
> May I understand that it is the initiator's responsibility to create
> 5 different initiatorAcceptance EPR so that the response might be
> discriminated properly?
>
>> F. A new createPendingAgreement operation is introduced where an
>> input offer initiates an asynchronous acceptance decision; the
>> response is either a fault (fatal errors/rejection) or an EPR to
>> an Agreement that MAY be in Pending, Observed, or Rejected state.
>>
>> 1. The responder MUST update its state RP to either Observed or
>> Rejected following its decision.
>>
>> 2. The initiator MAY use alternate mechanisms to determine if and
>> when the Agreement transfers to Observed, including but not
>> limited to the querying of a state RP. Until the initiator
>> determines the state as changed to Observed or Rejected, it
>> SHOULD NOT assume the outcome.
>>
>> 3. An optional initiatorAcceptance EPR MAY appear in the input
>> message, in which case the responder MUST invoke
>> acceptAgreement or rejectAgreement to communicate its
>> decision, in addition to updating its state RP.
>>
>> 4. An optional initiatorAgreement EPR MAY appear as in
>> createAgreement. This EPR MAY be the same as the
>> initiatorAcceptance EPR, if the service implements both
>> interfaces.
>>
>> 5. Should the output allow an optional state indicator? I think
>> it is simpler to say "no" and uniformly assume an interaction
>> after creation.
>>
>>
>

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