[ogsa-bes-wg] A Q about the BES document

[Ian Foster]

Hi,

I am reviewing (and editing) the BES document, and have a question that 
doesn't seem worth raising in a tracker.

In the state discussion, there are sentences something like the following:

a) An activity stays in the StagingOut state until all staging out 
actions have moved to a Terminal state (Done, Exception, Terminated).

b) If the terminal state of any staging out actions is Exception then the 
activity moves to a Exception state.

I interpret these two sentences to mean that we only enter the Exception 
state when all staging out actions have completed. I.e., that if one stage 
out fails, but others are still going, we wait until the others have 
completed before moving to the Exception state. Is that correct?

Thanks -- Ian.