Less is More Revisit

Multiparty session types (MPST) is a type discipline where a programmer or architect specifies a whole view of communications as a global protocol, and each distributed program is locally type-checked against its end-point projection. After 10 years from the birth of MPST, Scalas and Yoshida have discovered that the proofs of type safety in the literature which use the end-point projection with mergeability are flawed. After this paper, researchers wrongly believe that the end-point projection (with mergeability) is unsound. We correct this misunderstanding, proposing a new general proof technique for type soundness of multiparty session -calculus, which uses an association relation between a global type and its end-point projection.