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Fix reliability assumption
brien oberstein
17 Dec 1997 9:55AM ETI'm doing a fix implementation from scratch and I'm wrestling with coming up with a good implementation of the session protocol.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what assumptions about reliability the spec makes, eg, do we assume that the transport mechanism is reliable (eg TCP/IP gaurantees data will be delivered or the connection will be dropped). Without this assumption the fix spec does not seem sufficient.
The reliability assumption I'm coming to is that the fix session protocol assumes that messages will be delivered intact and in order from one party to another (with possible data corruption). Retransmission of messages is for the case when a message is corrupted in transit or to handle a software fault (ie bug) on either end.
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
-brien
Fix reliability assumption
brien oberstein 17 Dec 1997 9:55AM ET
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