RE: Trading Partner Logical Identification based on EDIFACT or X12qualifiers

[David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by INTERNET:mwsachs@us.ibm.com
> So a few tenths of a second implies some super-robust
repository and communications paths.  Is this realistic?
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Actual Marty this was my assertion, not Dick's!

Notice in delivering a 10K message say - once the connection
is established and the transfer initiated, so you know you have a
live link, then a simple query/response mechanism confirms
the trading partner profile so you know that the interchange
you are about to effect actually matches what the TP expects.

I know that's a bit radical - why would you want to do that?!

Of course at the exact second you try and do this the other server
goes down - but under normal operating conditions - once you
have a reliable link the overhead should be minimal...

DW.