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Subject: RE: [ws-rx] i0019 - a formal proposal - take 2



Comments inline
-Doug


"Giovanni Boschi" <gboschi@sonicsoftware.com> wrote on 09/01/2005 09:45:34 AM:

> Two <GB> Inline comments below.  At this point I feel we are proposing to
> significantly complicate the protocol, without solving any clearly identifiable problem.

>  
> Regards,
> G.
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> From: Doug Davis [mailto:dug@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:43 PM
> To: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [ws-rx] i0019 - a formal proposal - take 2

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> Lei,
>   Yes that is true.  So there are two thing here: 1) the proposal doesn't say why
> the RMS is closing the sequence nor does it say what it will use the final ACK state for.

> <GB> At least when we started, there was an actual problem we were trying to solve.
> Now it sounds like the proposal doesn’t solve it, but we like the proposal anyway
> for some other reason, and what I’m reading is that this is all OK as long as we
> are careful not to suggest that the proposal solves any particular problem.


<dug>
reading issue 19, it specifically talks about the RMS getting "an accurate and
final acknowledgement status". You don't think this proposal does that?  You may
not like that it doesn't go beyond the ACK status and into the app delivery status,
but in terms of addressing issue 19 I think it does it.
</dug>
 
> This is very important.  It purposely does not get into that area because, as
> others have stated, things like linking of sequence should probably be done by some
> higher level processing, which is out of scope (as of now anyway).  

> <GB>  Forget linking of seqences.  From the language in proposal 3,  (“After line
> 396, …”)  “…this would leave the RM source unsure of the final ranges of messages
> that were delivered to the destination”.  Please explain how, without knowledge of
> the destination DA, this problem isn’t still there.  Please don’t tell me it doesn’
> t matter, or that we’ll deal with it later, in a separate issue, because I don’t
> know if we will or not;  We will be asked to consider this proposal on its own, and
> decide if it solves the problem.  At this point I have to conclude that it does not.


<dug>
The RM protocol, regardless of the DA being used, only deals with delivery of
messages to the RMD not delivery to the RMD's application.  I understand that this
is not what some people want but that's what it is.  The problem, as stated
in the text you quoted, is the RMS knowing for sure what the final ACK state
is.  I believe this proposal gives the RMS a way to get that final state.

Now, it doesn't address the issue you're concerned with, which is
getting into the DA's, and that is something the RM spec, as of now,
does not address.
</dug>

> And  2) this problem exists for other areas of the spec, not just this proposal.  
> Let's say the an RMS reaches the MaxMessageNumber, as defined by the RMD.  The way
> to resolve this is to create a new sequence to continue - well how can we guarantee
> the ordering will be preserved across the sequences?  Same problem.  So this
> proposal does not introduce a new problem, the problem is already there.  However,
> that being said, and even though several people have said that doing things like
> preserving the order across sequences is something for a higher-level processing, I
> do personally believe that the spec should provide an aide to that processing.  But
> I view that as a separate issue and not part of this one.
> thanks
> -Doug
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> "Lei Jin" <ljin@bea.com>

> 08/30/2005 08:15 PM
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> Let's assume we are using an in-order delivery assurance.  I am sending 10 messages
> from AS to AD, and after some time, I decide to send a <close> for which I receive
> a final ack with (1 - 5).
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> If I understand correctly, one of the motivations for having a final ack is so that
> you know the accurate state of all the received messages, so that you can decide
> what to resend later in a new sequence.  So let's say we start up a new reliable
> sequence and resends messages 6 - 10.  However, here is a problem.  How do I
> preserve the in-order delivery assurance?  How do I guarantee that message 6 will
> be delivered after message 5.  Note that the final ack only says (1 - 5) is
> received, not delivered.  It's perfectly reasonable if message 5 is not delivered
> by the time another sequence is set up and message 6 arrives.  In that case, are we
> going to have to worry about delivery assurances across multiple sequences?
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> Lei
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Davis [mailto:dug@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:08 PM
> To: ws-rx@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [ws-rx] i0019 - a formal proposal - take 2
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> Yet more comments. :-)
> -Doug

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> "Stefan Batres" <stefanba@microsoft.com>

> 08/30/2005 03:35 PM
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> Doug,
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> Some more comments and thoughts on your proposal:
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> <dug>... When or why an RMS uses CloseSequence is up to it to decide.
> All we know is that it wants to shut things down and get an accurate ACK from the RMD.</dug>
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> I still have not heard of a plausible reason why an RMS “wants to shut things down”
> and the current spec presents a problem. Comparing the spec as it stands today vs.
> the spec + this proposal:
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> TODAY: RMS wants to end the sequence so it sends a LastMessage and must wait for a
> complete set of acks; this might require retransmitting messages. Once a full set
> of acks is received RMS sends TerminateSequence.

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> TODAY + THIS PROPOSAL: RMS wants to end the sequence so it sends Close, waits for a
> CloseResponse, possibly retransmitting the Close. Once a CloseResponse is received
> RMS sends TerminateSequence.

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> The problem with the TODAY scenario, as I’ve heard it in this forum, is that the
> RMS might have to wait unacceptably long between sending LastMessage and getting a
> full ack range. But if getting some messages or acks across proves difficult; why
> would the RMS expect that getting Close across would be any easier?
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> <dug> 1 - I don't believe your text is accurate in that Close is supposed to be
> used in cases where the sequence needs to end due to something going wrong.  You've
> described a case where the sequence is functioning just fine - and while Close can
> be used in those cases as well, it provides no additional value.  2- Sending a
> Close and sending application data can have quite a different set of features
> executed so I don't think its hard to imagine cases where RM messages can get
> processed just fine but application messages run into problems.  I believe Chris
> mentioned on some call the notion of two different persistent stores - one for RM
> data and one for app-data.  Its possible that the app-data one is running into
> problems.  3 - Using the CloseSequence operation is option - if you feel that, as
> an RMS implementor, you'll never see its usefulness then you're free to never
> implement/send it.  However, I'd hate remove this option for those of us who do see
> value in it.  </dug>
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> <dug>The case that I keep thinking about is one where the RMD is actually a cluster
> of machines and when a sequence gets created it has an affinity to a certain server
> in the cluster - meaning it processes all of the messages for that sequence. If
> that server starts to have problems, and for some reason it just can't seem to
> process any new app messages then the RMS can close down the sequence and start up
> a new one. Hopefully, the new sequence will be directed to a different server in
> the cluster. </dug>
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> There are two problems with this scenario and the proposed solution.
> 1.      If an RMD has sequence-to-machine affinity that should be strictly the RMDs
> decision and the RMDs problem. The RMS is autonomous; this proposal puts
> expectations on the RMS’ behavior based on particularities of the RMD
> implementation. To be clear, I’ll note that affinity can be achieved in two ways:
>                                                        i.            By performing
> stateful routing at the RMD; basically the RMD has to remember every active
> sequence and what machine it has affinity to. In this case it would be simple to
> change the RMD’s routing table when a machine fails.
>                                                       ii.            By generating
> different EPR’s for each machine. For affinity to function this way two things are necessary:
> 1.      Some sort of endpoint resolution mechanism would have to be devised for the
> RMS to learn the EPR that it should target.
> 2.      A mechanism for migrating that EPR.

> Clearly 1) and 2) are outside the scope of the TC and, in my view, this proposal
> might be defining 2) in an informal way that is specific to WS-RM.

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> 2.      If the RMS somehow guesses that there is a problem on the EPR to which it
> is sending its messages and somehow decides that Closing the sequence and starting
> a new one is the right course of action, ordering guarantees are compromised.
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> <dug> I probably didn't state the problem very well.  I didn't intend to claim that
> the RMS knew about this affinity, but instead it knew that something was wrong with
> the current sequence and in order to try to fix the situation it decided to try
> another sequence.  The affinity bit was thrown in there to explain why starting a
> new sequence _might_ fix the problem.
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> I should also point out that while a lot of these discussions have focused on
> InOrder+ExactlyOnce DA, this feature is still useful in other DAs.  For example, if
> the DA is just ExactlyOnce - having an accurate accounting of the ACKs allows a
> subsequent sequence to send just the gaps from the first, so getting an accurate
> list of the gaps becomes critical.  And this of course leads us to the discussion
> of how to determine the DA in use - which I think might be part of issues 6, 9, 24 and 27.
> </dug>
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> Finally, I agree with you that considering a gap-filling mechanism would be a good
> thing for this TC to do.
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> --Stefan
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