Issue 5603: collapse TakeInstant and DeliveryInstant                                                                                                                                                                (smart-transducers-ftf)
Source: Institut fuer Technische Informatik (Mr. Thomas Losert, thomas@vmars.tuwien.ac.at)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: The IDL in Section 3.4 contains struct TakeInstant and struct DeliveryInstant containing the same subfields. These types should be replaced by a single struct Instants (the plural because it is not just one single instant).
Thus the functions ReadDeliveryInstant() and ReadTakeInstant() should also be renamed to ReadDeliveryInstants() and ReadTakeInstants().
The description in Section 3.5 has to be changed too

Resolution: Accept changes as proposed.
Revised Text: 9/29/02 Page 20
Section 3.4 “Complete IDL Definitions”:
struct Instants {
TimeInstant instant;
TimeDuration period;
};
[...]
void ReadDeliveryInstants(
in NameID Name,
out Instants Instant
);
[...]
void ReadTakeInstants(
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in NameID Name,
out Instants Instant
);
Section 3.5 “Specification of Data Representation“:
struct Instants: The first value (subfield instant) informs about the next
instant when the most recent of the denoted events will occur. The second
value (subfield period) is the period of the named data item.
Actions taken:
August 27, 2002: received issue
December 11, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 

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OMG Issue No:  XXXX
Title:	  behaviour for multiple MSA or MSD rounds
(smart-transducers-ftf)
Source:
TTTech Computertechnik AG (Mr. Thomas Losert,
thomas@vmars.tuwien.ac.at)
Summary:
In Section 2.3.3 it is unclear, how an ST should behave when multiple
MSA or MSD rounds have been received (e.g. because an MSA round was
not received correctly).
Thus the following paragraph should be added in Section 2.3.3:
"If multiple MSA rounds are received it should be assumed that some
MSD rounds got lost and thus the last MSA round is chosen. If multiple
MSD rounds are received it should be assumed that the intermediate MSA
rounds got lost and thus only the first MSD round is valid while the
remaining MSD rounds are dropped. Thus the system provides additional
resistance against unintended operations because of missed MSA or MSD
rounds."
Resolution:
See above.
Revised Text:
Done as proposed.
Disposition:	Accepted
Disposition Parameter:	None