Issue 14774: Section 9 Collaboration [Choreography; Specification, Metamodel]: (bpmn2-rtf)
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs (Dr. Stephen White, steve.white(at)bookzurman.com)
Nature: Enhancement
Severity: Significant
Summary: Section 9 Collaboration [Choreography; Specification, Metamodel]: Clarify that a pool represents a single BPMN process, not a "participant" meaning role or business entity 

##Source: IBM (Stephen A. White, wstephe@us.ibm.com)
##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-299
##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Enhancement)

This is number 2 of 12 issues submitted by Bruce Silver

Clarify that a pool represents a single BPMN process, not a "participant" meaning role or business entity.  At least do this for a white box pool (aka private process); a black box pool (abstract process) is empty of activities, so its process is unknown and often labeled as role or business entity.  Also remove the language that multiple pools in a BPD are about B2B.  This is rarely the case.  Multiple white box pools in a BPD are used when the processes involved have independent lifetimes and cardinality, and almost always when both pools represent the same business entity not B2B.


Resolution: The FTF agrees that there is a problem that needs fixing, but did not agree on a resolution and deferred its resolution to a future RTF/FTF.
Disposition: Deferred
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
November 23, 2009: received issue
Discussion: 
Comments:
From: bruce created: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:51:52 -0600 (CST)
I suspect I will not carry the day on this one.  I see there was language to this effect in early November and then deleted later.  Can we at least say that a pool may contain at most one process?

From: wstephe created: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:28:08 -0500 (CDT)
The section number was removed from the Summary to allow this to apply to the Beta 1 spec


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ection 9 Collaboration [Choreography; Specification, Metamodel]: Clarify that a pool represents a single BPMN process, not a "participant" meaning role or business entity 

##Source: IBM (Stephen A. White, wstephe@us.ibm.com)
##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-299
##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Enhancement)

This is number 2 of 12 issues submitted by Bruce Silver

Clarify that a pool represents a single BPMN process, not a "participant" meaning role or business entity.  At least do this for a white box pool (aka private process); a black box pool (abstract process) is empty of activities, so its process is unknown and often labeled as role or business entity.  Also remove the language that multiple pools in a BPD are about B2B.  This is rarely the case.  Multiple white box pools in a BPD are used when the processes involved have independent lifetimes and cardinality, and almost always when both pools represent the same business entity not B2B.

Comments:
From: bruce created: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:51:52 -0600 (CST)
I suspect I will not carry the day on this one.  I see there was language to this effect in early November and then deleted later.  Can we at least say that a pool may contain at most one process?

From: wstephe created: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:28:08 -0500 (CDT)
The section number was removed from the Summary to allow this to apply to the Beta 1 spec