846 2004-08-24 15:07:35 +0000 The defining characteristic of a Participant 2004-12-01 17:05:25 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WS Choreography Spec: Structural unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-chor/2004Aug/0006.html P2 normal -- 1 gritzinger martin.chapman public-ws-chor-comments oldest_to_newest 2154 0 gritzinger 2004-08-24 15:07:35 +0000 'Section 2.3.2 Participants' of the Web Services Choreography Description Language, Version 1.0 Editor's Draft, 24 July 2004 states: "A Participant identifies a set of Roles that MUST be implemented by the same entity or organization. Its purpose is to group together the parts of the observable behaviour that MUST be implemented by the same process." This may be an implication of the definition of a participant - but may not be a necessary implication. It is not the defining characteristic as far as the choreography language specification is concerned. Proposal: Replace these two sentences with: "A Participant identifies a set of Roles that are able to share variable values. Thus Roles that belong to a participant do not send messages to each other to share or test information values, they do so directly by sharing the variable values. Contra wise Roles that are in different participants can not share variables; they must use messages to share information values." Best Regards Tony A M Fletcher 2314 1 martin.chapman 2004-09-09 19:43:45 +0000 *** Bug 849 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 2675 2 martin.chapman 2004-12-01 17:04:21 +0000 *** Bug 722 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***