Re: multi-hop requirement

[Henry Lowe <hlowe@omg.org>]

William,

Back in the early days of TRP, we identified support of SMEs (which 
may well only have a browser and/or e-mail) requiring multi-hop.  
To do business with others, either big or small, the SME would go 
through a Portal such as Yahoo.  Particularly for interactions 
with large enterprises (LE), the Portal would probably use something 
other than SNMP or HTTP (perhaps CORBA or QMseries).  Thus, multi-hop 
would be a requirement -- SME to Portal using SNMP for first hop and 
Portal to LE using CORBA for second hop.

Best regards,
Henry
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At 09:42 AM 01/09/2001 -0500, William J. Kammerer wrote:
>Sandy Klausner is puzzled by the inclusion of multi-hop capability in
>the Transport, Routing & Packaging Version 0.91 document: "...no where
>in the document is there a requirement description that explains one or
>more practical deployments."
>
>I'm puzzled, too, except I just never had the temerity to ask the
>question since I don't know anything about such matters. But it does
>seem kind of a low level transport matter - kind of X.400'ish.  I don't
>think RosettaNet or BizTalk have such a thing, and SOAP only mentions it
>circumspectly. RosettaNet specifically ignores it: "In RNIF 2.0,
>RosettaNet is introducing a mechanism to facilitate exchange of these
>messages through a third-party routing entity such as a hub (a.k.a.
>intermediary). However this mechanism is still based on the peer-to-peer
>message exchange model as far as the PIP is concerned."
>
>Was the multi-hop capability meant to support intermediaries like VANs
>and e-business switches (a.k.a. VANs with a new name)?  That's kind of
>the way I read David Burdett's Multi-Hop Reliable Messaging Use Cases at
>http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-transport/200011/msg00018.html,
>including follow-up messages.
>
>William J. Kammerer
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