Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery

                                                                                                              
                    John Ibbotson                                                                             
                                         To:     "Marshall T. Rose" <mrose+mtr.netnews@dbc.mtview.ca.us>      
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                    08:42 AM             From:   John Ibbotson/UK/IBM@IBMGB                                   
                                         Subject:     Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery(Document 
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Marshall,
Comments below:
John

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                    "Marshall T. Rose"                                                                                    
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                    11/28/2001 05:17 AM              Subject:     Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery          
                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                          




guys - help me out with something. after reading your I-D, i can't help but
think that you can meet your requirements by:

1. shifting more responsibility (e.g., loss detection) to the endpoints.
<JBI> Absolutely. From a reliability point of view, the responsibility is
not to lose the message at
<JBI> the endponts. In this case, the sending endpoint must have a stored
copy available until it knows
<JBI> unambiguously that the receiving endpoint has successfully stored the
received message persistently.
<JBI> It can then delete its copy. In cases of failure, it can retry and
synchronise with the receiving
<JBI> endpoint.
2. using an application-layer relaying service with deterministic delivery
semantics (e.g., apex with some of the party pack options).
<JBI> I need to read more on APEX before commenting authoritatively on this
:-) But having seen your
<JBI> presentation to the XML Protocol WG in Boston I think APEX could
provide the basis for a reliable
<JBI> protocol. There is still the question as to what is to be done in the
short term and the feedback we get <JBI> from our customers is that HTTP
will be around for a long time and they'd like to make that reliable -
<JBI> warts and all !
what am i missing here?

/mtr

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