Re: SequenceNumber [was:minutes 21-Dec-2000 tr&p con-call]

[SHIMAMURA Masayoshi <shima.masa@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Mr. David Burdett, 

I agree with Mr. Martin W. Sachs. His suggestion is same as my intention.
In addition, I'd like to ask you to not remove the notification function
of reset of SequenceNumber. If a conversation continues for *very long
time*, the SequenceNumber might be reset in the conversation at a time.
For example, when upgrade of middleware, when system crash and its
repair, etc. The notification function of reset of SequenceNumber is
needed for such situation.

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 09:13:32 -0800
"Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com> wrote:
> Marty
> 
> You make a good point, we need to include the ability to wrap sequence
> numbers as Shimamura has suggested.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin W Sachs [mailto:mwsachs@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 7:41 AM
> To: Burdett, David
> Cc: SHIMAMURA Masayoshi; ebXML Transport (E-mail); IWASA Kazunori;
> Jacques Durand
> Subject: RE: SequenceNumber [was:minutes 21-Dec-2000 tr&p con-call]
> 
> 
> 
> If a conversation really represents a single unit of business, then I would
> expect that within a conversation, there would be at most a few tens of
> messages.  However if some business process uses the conversation as an
> open-ended session, then the number of messages could get very large and
> some protocol that handles wrap of the sequence number would be needed.
> Since the beginning and end of a conversation are defined by the business
> process, there is nothing to stop someone for using it as an open-ended
> session.
> 
> Once TRP starts to be concerned with how a conversation works rather than
> just with passing the conversation identifier from sender to receiver, it
> is starting to get outside its scope and is tiptoeing into the business
> process domain.  I suggest limiting sequence numbers to whatever is needed
> for reliable messaging and making it clear that that's what they are for.
> 
> Regards,
> Marty
> 

Regards, 

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