Re: [ws-rx] NEW ISSUE: semantics of "at most once" delivery assur ance

[Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>]

I think you meant AtMostOnce mode. I suppose you could do that, but from 
the
perspective of the RMS, it is still retransmitting until it receives an 
ack.

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Emerging e-business Industry Architecture
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
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Dan Leshchiner <dleshc@tibco.com> wrote on 07/27/2005 06:36:24 PM:

> Christopher B Ferris wrote:
> 
> >However, the protocol as specified would never be able to complete a 
> >sequence
> >if there are lost messages from the RMD perspective and the RMS is not
> >retransmitting them.
> > 
> >
> why so? as RMD, if i see a gap or AckRequested for a sequence number i 
> have not received and i am operating in "at least once" mode with my AD, 

> why cant i just send an Ack? if i did so, wouldn't that enable us to 
> complete the sequence?
> 
> thanks,
> dan