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Chris you said ... >>>I really don't think that it is asking too much to require that all nodes adopt RM semantics if OnceAndOnlyOnce is specified.<<< I disagree. I recently included a reply to this in a recent email. However I think it worth repeating here ... "I agree in the use case you suggest (i.e. SMTP) that the intermediaries can be ignored from a RM perspective. However I was thinking though of another use case ... Suppose you have three parties, A, B and C. B is an intermediary. A & B agree to use ebXML. B and C agree to use the BizTalk Framework (which also supports reliable messaging). So you can get end-to-end reliable messaging as all hops are reliable. I think your words would not allow this use case because the second hop is not ebXML. How would you make this use case work?" David PS. It's nice to agree most (but not all) the time ;)