Re: RFC 1905 Section 4.2.5

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> David T Perkins writes:

David> Note that running over a connection oriented transport "fixes"
David> some problems, but also creates additional problems. The one
David> that many people miss is when an operation is performed
David> successfully, but the connection is broken before the manager
David> receives it.  The resulting situation is the same as #1 above!

Many distributed systems running protocols over connection oriented
transports seem to work in practice even though this problems exists.
I guess in most cases, systems just resynchronize state anyway if a
connection went away in an unexpected way.

/js