Re: multiparty (was) Fwd: Re: message routing

[bhaugen <linkage@interaccess.com>]

From: John Yunker:
> This issue gets really thorny unless you keep two concepts front and
center:
> Any one "transaction" is between two parties, and a party's
responsibilities
> and capabilities are specified in the protocol in which they "agree" to
> participate.

I fully agree.

Moreover, when it comes to dependencies between transactions in a
collaboration, many (if not most) of them will also be between two parties,
because they will be commitment-fulfillment relationships and commitments
are (usually?always?) between two parties.

In other words, many (all?) multi-party collaborations can be resolved to
a group of two-party dialogs.

In still other words, the complexities of workflow models with splits and
joins etc may be avoidable in many cases.

-Bob Haugen