FW: TIP - node rules

"Lele, Vishwas" <Vishwas_Lele@aisdevnet.com> Fri, 08 August 1997 12:21 UTC

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Subject: FW: TIP - node rules
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tom Freund [SMTP:tjfreund@uk.ibm.com]
> Sent:	Friday, August 08, 1997 5:59 AM
> To:	p.furniss@ulcc.ac.uk
> Cc:	tip@tandem.com
> Subject:	Re: TIP - node rules
> 
> Peter,
> 
> 
> > There might also need to be something about the relation between the
> > and the particulars would be in the TIP + application protocol P
> spec
> > (which I agree will be bilateral in the first instances), but there
> are
> > some rules that it might be useful to state for guidance.
> 
> > One kind of rule, essential because of the two-pipe mechanism, is
> making
> > sure the top-node (the travel agent in the requirements example)
> does not
> > initiate commitment until all the subordinates have registered.
> > Generalising this precisely may not be that easy. A particular might
> be:
> 
>       Doesn't the general rule need to also state that all
> applications
> messages must have been
> received by a server ... this would be the equivalent of the
> OTS/implicit/checked behavior?
> 
>      Another case, not specifically on this point but related is
> out-of-sequence messages ... i.e. a failure
> in the server causes the server to restart at some random point in the
> application message flow (btw a
> point which is not covered in the OMG/OTS specification).
> 
> Tom Freund