Hello, I have some questions regarding Exponential Backoff as a means to adjust the retransmission interval, and since I did not find anything related on the web, I thought it might be a good idea to ask some developers:
(1) Exponential backoff as such only means lengthening of the interval, however, common applications (e.g. TCP) em- ploy methods of shortening it, too. How do you interpret exponential backoff as given in the WSRM specification -- in the strict sense or in a way that allows for a shrin- king interval, too? (2) What is this adjustment meant to relate to? Should it happen to individual messages or should it affect all mes- sages in the same way? (3) This arose from my looking at the code: Sandesha has some support for the exponential backoff strategy, but there seems to be no actual adjustment of the interval. Is this right? As a follow-up to the old thread about the message number problem in Sandesha: I did change my copy of the code to use BigInteger instead of long, however, I then got dis- tracted and Sandesha's development seems to have progres- sed in the meantime. Would it be of use if I re-applied the modifications to a more current version and sent a patch, or has the problem been dealt with already? Regards, Philipp Reinecke
