Re: Need new MEP for SMTP binding

 Oh, I forgot to add that I'd in fact like to see a one-way MEP, 
but without the ACKs.

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet (formerly Idoox)
                   http://www.systinet.com/



On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Mark Baker wrote:

 > Currently, the only MEP that's been defined is request/response.  In
 > starting work on the SMTP protocol binding however, I feel that it's
 > best to avoid request/response because SMTP is not a request/response
 > protocol.  To do request/response with SMTP would necessarily be
 > tunneling, and a major security issue.
 > 
 > Would there be any objections to us defining a new MEP that represents
 > a one way message with hop-by-hop acknowledgement, like SMTP?  I see
 > this as being reusable for any binding to a message queue based transfer
 > protocol.
 > 
 > MB
 >

Received on Thursday, 14 March 2002 04:57:44 UTC