Issue 14663: Interactions supporting interactions (bpmn2-rtf)
Source: NIST (Dr. Conrad Bock, conrad.bock(at)nist.gov)
Nature: Revision
Severity: Significant
Summary: When a business commits to an interaction with potential business
partners, it might be that a particular partner needs only some of the
interaction.  This would be specified in another interaction diagram.
The modeler needs to link these two interactions to say one supports the
other, with the same semantics of the currently supports association,
except applied to messaging rather than activities.  The supports
association should be generalized to cover interactions
Resolution: 
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
November 19, 2009: received issue
Discussion: 
The beta specification currently enables abstraction in processes, but
not interactions, which is inconsistent and disables common interaction
use cases, for example as described in the issue. Resolving this
requires a modeler declaration indicating "runtime" message exchanges
between businesses following one interaction also follow another. This
means message exchanges can occur in reality that are not modeled in the
more abstract interaction model. The resolution would be very similar
to the same capability for processes, but requires explanation and
examples, which can be provided in RTF, and coordination with resolution
of 14686.
Disposition: Deferred
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s is issue # 14663

[OMG 14663] Interactions supporting interactions

##Source: NIST (Conrad Bock, conrad.bock@nist.gov)
##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-570
##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Revision)

When a business commits to an interaction with potential business
partners, it might be that a particular partner needs only some of the
interaction.  This would be specified in another interaction diagram.
The modeler needs to link these two interactions to say one supports the
other, with the same semantics of the currently supports association,
except applied to messaging rather than activities.  The supports
association should be generalized to cover interactions.