- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:01:41 -0400
- To: "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>
- Cc: "'Christopher B Ferris'" <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:48:41AM -0700, Burdett, David wrote: > I like your definitions, however, they do not address what I think is the > certainty that although you can be sure a message was received, you can > never be absolutely sure that it was not. How can you be sure that a message was received? Because there's always a chance that the response to a message doesn't make it, and leaves the two parties out of synch (i.e. two army problem). MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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