RE: RM and Intermediaries

Last month I raised a similar issue, and I got an extensive response from David Burdett at [1], which you might want to look at.

Ugo

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Dec/0095.html 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricky Ho [mailto:riho@cisco.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 7:50 AM
> To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> Subject: RM and Intermediaries
> 
> 
> 
> Lets say S is the sender endpoint, R is the receiver 
> endpoint, and i1, i2 
> are intermediaries that pre-process the message.
> 
> S --> i1 --> i2 --> R
> 
> Do i1 and i2 have to understand RM ? or RM is just an end-to-end 
> handshaking between S and R ?  If so, can S pick a different 
> path in its 
> message resend ?
> 
> Rgds, Ricky
> 
>