Re: Party row destruction.

Keith McCloghrie <kzm@hls.com> Tue, 17 August 1993 05:10 UTC

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From: Keith McCloghrie <kzm@hls.com>
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Subject: Re: Party row destruction.
To: F.Goncalves@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 21:26:46 PDT
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> Lets suppose that a set request is sent with "a" and "b" as source
> and destination parties and it
> delets the entry of the party table descriving "a" (or "b").
> 
> After doing the operation, should the response be sent?

If you forced me to choose, I'd say no.  However, I don't think it
necessary to make up rules for what agents should do in response to
something which a sensible manager won't do.  Thus, I suggest the
result should be implementation-dependent, allowing the agent do
whatever's easiest for it to do.

Keith.