18 Jan
2021
18 Jan
'21
6:24 p.m.
On Jan 17, 2021, at 5:56 PM, R. Voorhorst
<R.Voorhorst at swabhawat.com> wrote:
9934 ;*** ALTHOUGH THERE IS NOTHING REALLY IN THE DDCMP SPEC TO PROHIBIT SIMPLY
9935 ;*** STARTING OFF WITH WILD AND WIERD NUMBERS, SOME LESS-THAN-ROBUST SYSTEMS
9936 ;*** TEND TO GET TERRIBLY CONFUSED IF THE FIRST DDCMP NUMBERED MESSAGE ISN'T
9937 ;*** NUMBER "1", SO . . . RESET THE MESSAGE NUMBERS
That's a strange comment, because the DDCMP spec is quite explicit about the required
iniitial value of the sequence numbers. Of course it is; sequential message delivery
can't work if the two sides don't agree on what number to start with.
paul