In the interest of sanity and progress, I have broken up Rich's, Michael's, Monica's and Eilon's emails into four subjects - Shared Transient Information , Persistent Information Scope , createEntity/createTemplate/createPortlet , session and entity handles , and Property lists . This email will deal with Shared Transient Information , and the relevant quotes from the emails and my reply to them: Rich wrote: > This is a concept that has been brought up both in the WSRP discussions and > the Coordinated Use case of WSIA (deferred for now). The discussion we had > on Tuesday had general agreement that this would be Consumer supplied > functionality that Producers would not need to even know was occurring. I > think people still need to think through this, but hopefully we can make it > a decision point soon. Michael wrote: > 1) I agree we should ignore the shared transient information type . So Gil now writes: Well, it seems we're in the direction of dropping shared transient state from the draft spec (at least for v1.0), and having our first resolution on the draft spec :->! I second this, as I think our interfaces in their first shot must be minimal, and this issue is a difficult and unclear one. Final objections, anybody?