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Martin W. Sachs
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P. O. B. 704
Yorktown Hts, NY 10598
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Martin W Sachs
08/07/2001 10:24 AM
To: David Fischer <>
cc:
From: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
Subject: RE: T2 SyncReply and ReliableMessagingMethod in
QualityOfServiceInfo (Document link: Martin W. Sachs)
Again, be careful with the ACKS.
If the To and From parties are separated from each other by intermediaries
A, B, C in series, and B can't do reliable messaging:
a) It doesn't matter that B can't do reliable messaging if the reliable
messaging protocol is betwen the To and From parties' MSHs, which is what
it should be. The job of hops A, B, and C is simply to move the message
along. I suppose that the A-B and B-C hops could do their own reliable
messaging under the covers but, as I said in the earlier posting, if C
loses the message before forwarding it to the To party, then the fact that
A-B and B-C are doing reliable messaging is of no value. The message still
won't get to the To party.
b) Aside from that, if hop B-C is generally unreliable, reliable messaging
can still be done between the To and From parties. However, the To party's
MSH may have a higher than normal frequency of retries because of the low
quality of hop B.
Regards,
Marty
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Martin W. Sachs
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
P. O. B. 704
Yorktown Hts, NY 10598
914-784-7287; IBM tie line 863-7287
Notes address: Martin W Sachs/Watson/IBM
Internet address: mwsachs @ us.ibm.com
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David Fischer <> on 08/07/2001 09:42:09 AM
To: christopher ferris <>
cc: ebXML Msg <>
Subject: RE: T2 SyncReply and ReliableMessagingMethod in
QualityOfServiceInfo
How do you set SyncReply on a message-by-message basis? If I understand
you
correctly, syncReply MUST apply to ALL transfers between two parties or to
None -- must always be the same. I think we may want a little more
flexibility.
We allow this flexibility in multi-hop, why not in single-hop?
In EDIINT, syncReply was always default to True and we occasionally would
change
to False for very large files -- allowing the connection to close rather
than
wait (potentially hours) for a very large file to be decrypted or the MIC
to be
generated for a NRR. (Instead of syncReply, EDIINT calls this parameter
Receipt-Delivery-Option). IMO, we need to allow for the unforeseen.
In the case of ReliableMessagingMethod, I'm not even sure what this does or
why
we need it at all. What does a value of "Transport" mean -- the spec
doesn't
say? I assume it means just send the message and don't worry about RM
since
this hop can't handle it? I think this will never be used but David seemed
to
think it was needed and I don't have any heartburn with that. Since I this
sits
right next to SyncReply in the Ack, I included it in parameters which need
to be
allowed without an Ack. Either way is fine with me.
David.
-----Original Message-----
From: christopher ferris [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:58 AM
To: David Fischer
Cc: ebXML Msg
Subject: Re: T2 SyncReply and ReliableMessagingMethod in
QualityOfServiceInfo
David,
Where does this requirement come from? In the case of
syncReply, the CPA is what determines this. In the absence
of a CPA, then a virtual CPA applies.
Cheers,
Chris
David Fischer wrote:
>
> There should be nothing in the Via which is not also in other headers.
Via
> should only be used for multi-hop intermediaries. In the case of
SyncReply,
> there is no single-hop way of requesting SyncReply=true.
>
> Attributes SyncReply and ReliableMessagingMethod should also be in
> QualityOfServiceInfo. They should retain their current defaults.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Fischer
> Drummond Group.
>
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