Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery

Hi John,

> The choice of HTTP in our
> requirements comes about from customer feedback. In spite of the
> deficiencies of HTTP, it is the de-facto infrastructure on the Web and
> adding reliability to it is seen as important.

I don't disagree that reliability is important, but assuming that HTTP
is a transport protocol is a very easy way to do the wrong thing with
it.  HTTP defines an application model, which much more narrowly
constrains how reliability fits in than is the case with a transport
protocol.  Both HTTPR and the requirements draft do not respect this
model.

For more on this, see;

http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/RestArchitecturalStyle

MB
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