- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:26:54 -0500
- To: "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:53:16PM -0800, Burdett, David wrote: > The problem with this is that, just after you have given up, you might > receive the acknowledgement that indicates the message was received ... > which is where it gets more complicated. Exactly. The two army problem has a solution in bounded time, which is unfortunately not very helpful on a public, asynchronous network. There were a number of good papers written about this general problem during the 90s. A more recent one I found, does a good job at summarizing the more important ones, IMO; http://bonda.cnuce.cnr.it/Documentation/Reports/Doc2000/PDF00/IDPT2000.pdf MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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