> > Would some of this problem go away if we were more in > agreement about what > > "reliable messaging" means? > > Perhaps, but I doubt it. Any use of "reliable messaging" I've seen > assumes that its job is to make the cruel and nasty network look (to > varying degrees) less cruel and nasty. It is this premise that I > believe is fundamentally flawed. Mark, this I don't get. TCP certainly makes a datagram network look "less cruel and nasty", if you're in the right market. And HTTP standard implementation is over TCP, not UDP (I've read up on experimental hybrid stuff). Unless I misunderstand, REST is built upon a level of reliability, and it sounds like the same level of reliability being discussed here. WaldenReceived on Wednesday, 10 July 2002 11:36:48 GMT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 3 July 2007 12:25:01 GMT