Subject: Problems with Status Type and Error Codes

From: David Burdett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 06:50:43 +0100

The Status Component is used in a Status Inquiry Transaction to report on
the status of an Iotp Transaction by a server. Currently this requires that
the StatusType attribute in the component is specified as either
Authentication, Offer, Payment or Delivery. Yet it is possible that an Input
Message is received by a server where the IotpTransId can be identified but
the document exchange cannot due to an error in the input message.

As it currently stands the Status Inquiry Transaction can't validly report
this type of error. Proposed change is as follows:

1. Add a new StatusType value of "Undefined" to be used when the type of
document exchange can't be recognised.

2. Change the ElRef attribute that points to data that describes the type of
exchange from Required to Implied and make it optional if the StatusType is
Undefined.

David

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