- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:34:14 -0500 (EST)
- To: brian@hursley.ibm.com (Brian E Carpenter)
- Cc: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore), janssen@parc.xerox.com, discuss@apps.ietf.org
> Mark, > > I worked in process control systems for ten years or so, and > my answer is: no, mechanisms such as you describe aren't > good enough. You need transactional reliability. If you mean that an HTTP operation needs to occur within the context of a larger transaction, HTTP can do that so long as the interaction remains stateless (see [1]). But I question whether this is needed in the use case I provided. Perhaps if you're controlling a thermostat used in some chemical engineering plant you'd need it, but not in a house. [1] http://www1.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/hypermail/2001/0044.html MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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