Reliable messaging; solution or requirement?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:22:36PM -0700, Joseph Hui wrote:
> There's a chasm between our understandings in what constitutes
> a specific solution (based on our previous few message exchanges),

Let's see if I can capture the two positions.

You (and others) appear to believe that unreliable messaging is a
problem requiring a solution.

My belief is that the problem is "reliable coordination".  That is,
how do two pieces of software distributed on an unreliable network,
coordinate to achieve some goal in a reliable manner (such that both
know that the goal has been achieved or failed, etc..)?  So I see
"reliable messaging" as just one possible solution to that problem.

Does that help?

MB
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Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2002 16:45:57 UTC