Github user mattrpav commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis/pull/1820 @michaelandrepearce the IBM MQ scenario I was referring to was the ability to use a named queue to back a topic subscription, not cloned subscriptions-- this provides the separation of producers from consumers in terms of "its a different destination". This enables better wild card management for permissions and other access features to destinations. ie.. topic://ORDERING.** and queue://BILLING.** I agree JMS 2.0 topic subscriptions solve the "same broker" and "same destination" use case for application-side ability to dynamically add additional consumers to a message flow without broker config or existing producer and consumer(s) impacts. Note: on the exclusive consumer part, it sounds like Artemis has a gap vs 5.x in that the exclusive consumer config is server-side only (separate issues raised as [ARTEMIS-853] and [ARTEMIS-856]). The key feature in the broker-to-broker message scenarios is that the publishing destination is different than the consuming destination(s). In ActiveMQ 5.x, this allows for two important multi-broker messaging patterns, as well as enable the network of broker destination filtering (include / exclude), client permissions and destination policy mapping via wild card syntax sugar for administrators. See attached graphics Multi-broker Use Case 1:  Multi-broker Use Case 2: 
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