Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery

And there are many exchange models other than RPC ......
John

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                    Brian E                                                                                   
                    Carpenter            To:     Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>                                  
                    <brian@hursley       cc:     Bill Janssen <bill@janssen.org>, Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, 
                    .ibm.com>             "Marshall T. Rose" <mrose+mtr.netnews@dbc.mtview.ca.us>, Discuss    
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                    11/29/2001           Subject:     Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery          
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Eliot Lear wrote:
>
> In the vast volume o this discussion I lost something somewhere.  Why
isn't
> BEEP a good college try at a decent baseline upon which strong RPC could
be
> written?

Well, the draft we were originally discussing attempts to answer this.
>
> And why are we pissing and moaning rather than either fixing SOAP or
coming
> up with an alternative?

The draft attempts to list requirements, not exactly for fixing SOAP,
but making it unnecessary to fix it. [i.e. fix the Post Office rather
than the envelope.]

  Brian