- From: Walden Mathews <waldenm@ilx.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:36:03 -0400
- To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, "Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)" <RogerCutler@ChevronTexaco.com>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
> > Would some of this problem go away if we were more in > agreement about what > > "reliable messaging" means? > > Perhaps, but I doubt it. Any use of "reliable messaging" I've seen > assumes that its job is to make the cruel and nasty network look (to > varying degrees) less cruel and nasty. It is this premise that I > believe is fundamentally flawed. Mark, this I don't get. TCP certainly makes a datagram network look "less cruel and nasty", if you're in the right market. And HTTP standard implementation is over TCP, not UDP (I've read up on experimental hybrid stuff). Unless I misunderstand, REST is built upon a level of reliability, and it sounds like the same level of reliability being discussed here. Walden
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