Issue 4048: We should clarify the roles of sender and receiver                                                                                                                                                      (ftamftp-ftf)
Source: Siemens AG (Dr. Alan Burger, )
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: 2.	We should clarify the roles of sender and receiver, and make clearer which FTS actually initiates the transfer.
Resolution: see above
Revised Text: Section 2.1.2 introduces the interfaces. Section 2.1.4 File Transfer describes the high-level
file transfer operations. In Section 2.1.4, the subsection “File Transfer Implementa-tion”
describes File Transfer setup. The last subsection in 2.1.4, “Direct File Access”
shows pure client access to a File. Section 2.2 File Transfer Protocols describes the
requirements for using corba, ftp, and ftam for file transfer.
Actions taken:
November 15, 2000: received issue
Discussion: 
Resolution
The previous IDL was under specified and required use of is_equivalent to determine
sender or receiver identity, which also made it impossible to transfer files between a sin-gle FileSystem. The IDL has been changed to follow a transfer connection setup similar to
the A/V Streams specification.
Responsibility for the transfer of a file has been moved from the FileSession interface to
the File interface itself. Files now create TransferEndPoints that are used for a single file
transfer.
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2.	We should clarify the roles of sender and receiver, and make
  clearer which FTS actually initiates the transfer.