Re: Issue 140 bogus?

+1

Noah_Mendelsohn@lotus.com wrote:

> Would it make sense to say, in the normative specification, something
> along the lines of:
>
> "Except for next, and none, etc. this specification does not prescribe the
> criteria by which a given node determines the (possible empty) set of
> roles in which it acts on a given message.  For example, implementations
> can base this determination on factors including, but not limited to:
> hardcoded choices in the implementation, information provided by the
> transport binding (e.g. the URI to which the message was physically
> delivered), configuration information made by users during system
> installation, etc. "
>
> We already have text, I believe (I'm on an airplane and can't easily
> check) that makes clear that nodes acting as the anonymous actor cannot
> further relay a message, and in that sense serve as an endpoint.  I would
> fully expect that the request/response MEP, when specified, would indicate
> that responses typically originate from the node that acted in the
> anonymous role for the request.
>
> Sound about right?
>
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Received on Friday, 5 October 2001 08:58:02 UTC