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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 11:51:38 -0700 From: "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com> The spec already says that an error should be reported if the To MSH receives a message where Time To Live has passed. It doesn't though say that the message must be ignored. This is a small useful clarification. It's not clear to me that an error should be reported in this case. It must means that somewhere inside the Internet, a copy of this message was passed along after a long delay. This is inevitable, particularly noting that messages can disappear into the Internet and come back a *long* time later. We are already assuming that this can happen; it's part of our failure model. So the fact that a late straggling message came in is not evidence that anything is incorrect.