RE: [AMG] Other message patterns

Hi Dick,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Brooks [mailto:dick@8760.com]
> Sent: 05 March 2001 18:13
> To: Williams, Stuart; 'Randy Waldrop'; xml-dist-app@w3.org
> Subject: RE: [AMG] Other message patterns
> 
> 
> Stuart,
> 
> > ethernet, IP et. al. all provide a singular messaging primitive,
> > the one-way
> > message and yet we have all manner of protocol build upon that basic
> > primitive.
> 
> I don't believe it's realistic to define a one-way message 
> without defining some means to indicate exceptions during 
> the one-way communication. Even  Ethernet, which is
> largely one way, has the ability to throw an exception 
> (collision detected) during a one-way broadcast. I believe 
> the AMG must accommodate "reverse direction" exception reporting
> associated with a one-way message.

That's fine. In the model for one-way you'll find a XMLP_UNITDATA.status
primitive for precisely that purpose. This is largely because the style used
to model the one-way operation is identical to that used to model the IEEE
802 LAN MAC service in the IEEE 802 series of LAN standards.

> Dick Brooks

Regards

Stuart Williams