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Consistency of WSRF ResProp. based monitoring
In Section 7 of the WSRF Resource Properties Specification, the question of concurrent reads and writes to a WS-Resource
 is dealt with.  It states: "This specification is not prescriptive with respect to policy that governs concurrent  read
 or write access to a WS-Resource."  It goes on to say that: "The scope and extent of the isolation  of changes made to 
the WS-Resource is an implementation dependent responsibility  of the WS-Resource itself. The WS-Resource must also take
 on the responsibility for  the scope and extent to which notifications of changes to the WS-Resource are  isolated and 
made observable."

The WS-Agreement specification currently says nothing about the consistency of the guarantee term state or service state
 information (S8.2 and S8.3).  The WS-Agreement spec should either place additional constraints to make sure that all WS
-Agreement implementations give a consistent view, or should explicitly state that the user will need to use WS-
AtomicTransaction to achieve this consistent view (as Section 7 of the WSRF-RP specification suggests).

If this second route is taken, WS-AtomicTransaction needs to be added to Section 1.1.1 as a dependency, with suitable 
explanatory text.
Group Response
In a telecon, we came up with the following thoughts:

Term states cannot be updated via any sort of remote or web-services request.  They are solely the domain of the 
agreement provider to be updated to reflect it's view of the current state.  As such, we're not certain we see the 
consistency problem as they more or less provide a snapshot as to the provider's view of the current state of the 
agreement.

If I'm missing the point here, need further clarification, or if the group has follow-up ideas, plese feel free to add 
here.

 
 


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