#1 in my definition reads: the ability of a sender to be able to determine whether a given message has been received by its intended receiver ... It doesn't speak of a mechanism, but there are many means of achieving this. Cheers, Christopher Ferris Architect, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com phone: +1 508 234 3624 www-ws-arch-request@w3.org wrote on 08/29/2002 04:01:41 PM: > > 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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