- From: Damodaran, Suresh <Suresh_Damodaran@stercomm.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:29:28 -0500
- To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, Joseph Hui <Joseph.Hui@exodus.net>
- Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Mark, you are talking of achieving some "goal" by co-ordinating. What might that goal be? Cheers, -Suresh Sterling Commerce -----Original Message----- From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:57 PM To: Joseph Hui Cc: www-ws-arch@w3.org Subject: 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 -- 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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