On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:22:36PM -0700, Joseph Hui wrote: > There's a chasm between our understandings in what constitutes > a specific solution (based on our previous few message exchanges), Let's see if I can capture the two positions. You (and others) appear to believe that unreliable messaging is a problem requiring a solution. My belief is that the problem is "reliable coordination". That is, how do two pieces of software distributed on an unreliable network, coordinate to achieve some goal in a reliable manner (such that both know that the goal has been achieved or failed, etc..)? So I see "reliable messaging" as just one possible solution to that problem. Does that help? MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.comReceived on Wednesday, 10 July 2002 16:45:57 GMT
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