RE: [ws-rx] PR33 - Re: [ws-rx] NEW Issue back-channel not defined

["Bob Freund-Hitachi" <bob.freund@hitachisoftware.com>]

What is it?
How does rfc2821 return a mime body on the same connection?
Are you thinking that a correlated response using the rfc2822 message-ID
sent to the replyTo address is a backchannel?
Thanks
-bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:paul@wso2.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:49 AM
To: Bob Freund-Hitachi
Cc: Richard Salz; ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [ws-rx] PR33 - Re: [ws-rx] NEW Issue back-channel not
defined

Bob

That is exactly why I don't agree with your definition.
I believe that SMTP has a backchannel.

Paul

Bob Freund-Hitachi wrote:
> No, in the case of an rfc2822 message carried over an rfc2821
transport
> there is no backchannel (as defined in the chris/bob joint definition)
> since rfc2821 deprecated the rfc281 TURN command.
> In rfc2821 there is no way that a response may be transmitted over the
> same connection as the request.
> -bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Salz [mailto:rsalz@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:20 PM
> To: Paul Fremantle
> Cc: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [ws-rx] PR33 - Re: [ws-rx] NEW Issue back-channel not
> defined
>
>   
>> I still don't agree that this is right. I think there may be cases
>>     
> where 
>
>   
>> there is a new transport level connection. The main point is that the

>> response channel is transport-defined not WS-A defined.
>>     
>
> Hm.  For a SOAP-over-SMTP binding, would you expect the backchannel to
> be 
> a response message, the equivalent of the recipient invoking the
'reply'
>
> function on its mail user-agent?  (I think the question is
interesting; 
> either there is no back-channel or there is only the back-channel.)  I

> think it's up to the particular transport binding to say, tho.
>
>         /r$
>
> --
> STSM
> Senior Security Architect
> DataPower SOA Appliances
>
>   

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