sequence numbers and transaction ids.

Robert Woody Woodburn <woody@sparta.com> Mon, 18 May 1992 23:41 UTC

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Date: Mon, 18 May 92 19:27:28 EDT
From: Robert Woody Woodburn <woody@sparta.com>
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To: idpr-wg@bbn.com
Subject: sequence numbers and transaction ids.

Martha,

Aren't sequence numbers in the RID updates superfluous?  There is
a transaction id that is incremented in the CMTP header for every
message that is generated.  Doesn't this suffice?

wood y