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Subject: Re: T2 Retry with Delivery Receipt


Marty,

AN SMTP node is NOT an MSH node. It is not part of the equation.
The MSH nodes that are communication via SMTP are the ones that
adopt the RM protocol of retries in the absence of an Acknowledgment.
The SMTP nodes are incidental.

Cheers,

Chris

Martin W Sachs wrote:
> 
> Re:  "I think David's position is that we can't do that, because there are
> hosts/entities out there that (a) must participate as ebXML MS IM's,
> and (b) that are unreliable.  The question is whether there's a use
> case demonstrating this."
> 
> There is one major use case, which is SMTP.  SMTP intermediate nodes are
> notoriously unreliable and only acknowledge to the previous node so a
> sender has no idea whether the message got to its destination.  ebXML on
> top of SMTP is one of the major reasons for having ebXML reliable messaging
> and only end to end reliable messaging helps with SMTP.  I don't know if
> there is a use case for ebXML unreliable intermediaries but if there is,
> end to end RM is the answer.
> 
> Regards,
> Marty
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> 
> Dan Weinreb <dlw@exceloncorp.com> on 09/13/2001 12:55:02 PM
> 
> Please respond to Dan Weinreb <dlw@exceloncorp.com>
> 
> To:   chris.ferris@sun.com
> cc:   david@drummondgroup.com, ebxml-msg@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:  Re: T2 Retry with  Delivery Receipt
> 
>    Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:48:33 -0400
>    From: Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@sun.com>
> 
>    > The only problem is that the addition of multi-hop interferes with
> end-to-end
>    > retries (duplicates) which, as we have seen, is a fundamental
> functional
>    > requirement under all circumstances when a Delivery Receipt is
> requested but not
>    > received.
> 
>    You're asking for retries on top of retries. What happens when the
> end-to-end
>    retries are exhausted and there is still no delivery receipt? Do we add
> retries
>    of retries of retries? What happens when they fail? Do we add yet
> another layer?
> 
> What David is asking for is perfectly sensible *if* you your failure
> model states that IM's are unreliable, e.g. that an IM might accept a
> message, and then silently forget it.  In that case, the end-to-end
> retries exist for a specific purpose: to harden the system against the
> possibility of flaky IM's.  There would be no need to add another
> layer unless there is some additional, distinct failure mode to be
> taken care of.
> 
>    Why not focus on what you perceive as an omission in the spec, that an
> intermediary
>    has certain obligations w/r/t reliable delivery. Let's address that by
> adding
>    text that fully sets out what the responsibilities of an intermediary
> are
>    not only w/r/t RM but w/r/t routing and any other oddities of an
> intermediaries
>    role that is clearly distinct from that of an endpoint.
> 
> I think David's position is that we can't do that, because there are
> hosts/entities out there that (a) must participate as ebXML MS IM's,
> and (b) that are unreliable.  The question is whether there's a use
> case demonstrating this.
> 
>    I'd like to focus on the specific use case that you cited in the call,
> where
>    an MSH uses an EDI/INT gateway. Is there an ebXML MSH at the To Party or
> do they
>    simply have an EDI/INT server?
> 
>         MSHA -> IMSHGW -> EDI/INTGW -> EDI/INTB
> 
>    In this case, how does the ebXML delivery receipt get generated? IMO,
> the
>    EDI/INT Gateway has a responsibility to ensure that the message is
> safely
>    delivered. How it does this is not the perview of our specification.
> However,
>    that doesn't obviate the responsibility that the gateway intermediary
> node
>    assumes.
> 
> I'd call this a protocol-translating gateway, not an ebXML MS IM at
> all.  I agree that the gateway has to make sure that the message is
> truly delivered, and then the gateway generates the DR.  It's the
> job of the protcol-translating gateway to create the illusion that
> the far end is really running ebXML MS.
> 
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