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> Further, it will be a bad thing to allow the remote party to force a reset > the session during an active business cycle. Other than the "...only keeps a > message history of X messages" the scenarios are bugs which should be fixed > rather than worked around this way. For the record, not only (software) bugs can cause the FIX session state to become corrupt. A server may fail for a number of reasons. Even if you have site failover and X number of hot standby servers, all these might fail. This proposal is about how to recover from a failure if it happens, instead of saying that errors never happen. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:unsubscribe+100932...@fixprotocol.org] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to fix-proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fix-protocol+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.