At 10:54 AM 5/1/01 +0100, Mark Little wrote:
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>We can neither disallow (sub participants registering with coordinator)
>nor force. There is no way that coordinator can know it... and looks like
>hiding the subtransaction will not harm the transaction anyway.. so the
>coordinator site may want to include its wish to have a flat transaction
>structure(all the participants register with the coordinator) and
>participants may try to comply with it (if they wish!)
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>Subtransaction? Sub-coordination surely? Interposition isn't the same as
>subtransaction (or nested transaction).
>
I do not mean a sub-transaction or netsted transaction per proper
definition.. Ok, lets call it a new transaction, a transaction that the
main coordinator is not aware of, but its outcome may affect the
transaction that the main coordinator is managing.
>Mark.
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