Re: server-to-server protocols

["Robert G. Cole" <[e-mail]>]

Barr,

At 05:09 PM 4/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>The fundamental question that I am asking is 'Just what is the nature of 
>what the server-to-server protocol is trying to accomplish?'  In particular, 
>are we attempting to synchronize binding information (alone) among servers, 
>or are we attempting to enable one server to take-over from another by 
>synchronizing configuration information?
>

I guess I naively assumed both. That is, 1) I started to build an interserver
message that included the full client binding information and
2) I simply assumed that a goal of the interserver protocol
was to allow the configuration of a single server of the SG and
have this propagate throughout the SG.  But you raise a good point
that I hadn't considered, i.e., that these are seperable.

I couldn't see any way out of 1) passing full client binding information.
Any further thought on 2), is this a 'can of worms' ?

Thanks,

Bob