On 12/03/14 20:42, Ximin Luo wrote: > where a <= b means "the author of b has delivered[1] a" > [1] "delivered" here means "notify the application layers", i.e. it preserves > causal ordering/consistency in the application layer. the transcript engine > may delay delivery of old received messages if they are determined to be > later in the actual transcript
Ach, editing here made things less clear than thought on a first reading. By "delivered", I additionally mean "received and processed, and then notified the application layer". In other words, the author of b, their transcript engine has 1. received a (which may have been written by someone else) 2. and then processed it, possibly after a delay to preserve causal ordering 3. and then delivered it to the application layer, where it has been seen and understood by the real-world agent that subsequently wrote b X -- GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
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