Scope of a Cohesion Protocol Specification

Long-running “business transactions” which may be processed by discrete organizations across the public internet differ from classical atomic transactions in requiring increased protocol security and interoperability, and relaxable atomicity, isolation and durability properties. A protocol is required which is independent of communications mechanism, is capable of supporting fully ACID transaction processing, yet is also capable of supporting different AID qualities of service. Such a protocol would provide “appropriate transactionality” to applications. “Cohesive” actions (cohesions) could be processed as a superset of atomic actions, thus enabling a clean integration of legacy transactional resources and services, when appropriate.