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Transaction Internet Protocol (tip) BOF
Wednesday, April 9 at 1300-1400
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DESCRIPTION:
The standard method for achieving atomic commitment is the two-phase
commit protocol.
Numerous two-phase commit protocols have been implemented over the
years. However, none of them has become widely used in the Internet,
due mainly to their complexity. Most of that complexity comes from
the fact that the two-phase commit protocol is bundled together with
a specific program-to-program communication protocol, and that
protocol lives on top of a very large infrastructure.
TIP proposes a very simple two-phase commit protocol. It
achieves its simplicity by specifying only how different nodes agree
on the outcome of a transaction; it allows (even requires) that the
subject matter on which the nodes are agreeing be communicated via
other protocols. By doing so, all of the issues related to
application communication semantics and data representation
(to name just a few) are avoided.
It is envisioned that this protocol will be used mainly for a
transaction manager on one Internet node to communicate with a
transaction manager on another node.
CONTACT PERSON: Keith Evans <Evans_Keith@tandem.com>
AGENDA:
1) socialise the TIP protocol (presentation),
2) solicit feedback re the protocol (questions, suggestions for
enhancement, etc), 3) ascertain support for moving TIP forward as an
IETF standard.