RE: specification schema meeting minutes.

[Bob Haugen <linkage@interaccess.com>]

Please correct the following statement from the minutes:
>Bob described the negotiation pattern and its sequence of 
>flip-flopping' of roles, seller first being reuestor, then being responder

My point was rather the opposite:  the negotiation pattern
keeps the same two roles (for example buyer and seller)
but flip-flops the requesting and responding activities
between the two roles in successive transactions,
first the buyer performing the requesting activity
in an "Offer" transaction, then the seller performing
the requesting activity in a "Counteroffer" transaction.

The two parties maintain the same two roles, buyer
and seller, throughout.

The point was about the necessary difference between role
and activity.

-Bob Haugen