Chris, good explanation about how things might work. However, none of this is in the spec. If this is all correct, then why bother to have reliableMessagingMethod in Via -- or why bother having it at all? I don't dispute that your way would work, and maybe we should do it this way, but what you are describing does not align with the current spec although it could be a subset of the current functionality. The way RM was designed was to allow for other RM methods. Your explanation does not cover those and I can't find your routing application anywhere in the spec. If this is some sort of source routing protocol (workflow routing), we have specifically avoided that in the current spec. I have tried to stay out of the IM functionality discussion but I have to think that an IM which does more than store-and-forward is out of our scope for this version. I do like the way you hop over unreliable nodes. Let's just hop over everything and do end-to-end RM only! Regards, David Fischer Drummond Group.
