[E-Lang] not a statement of consensus on ERiaSR versus liveref

[zooko@zooko.com]

MarcS:

I think that we haven't explored the retrying/ordering/impatience design space
very much yet.  I personally have several ideas about which I think are relevant
that I haven't had time to post.

I strongly like the idea that you mention of having future-compatibility for
different retrying/ordering/impatience abstractions in future versions of E.
I personally don't yet grok the issues well enough to know what backwards-
compatible evolution we would be precluding by deploying a particular
abstraction...


I feel sure that the experience that several of us have in network engineering
would enable us to quickly implement a basic version of any new abstraction we
choose, starting with a working VatTP, and hacking the new abstraction on top
ofLiveRefs/SturdyRefs/VatTP.

I'm sorry about the delays in my contribution to this discussion, and I hope
that it doesn't time out.  Hopefully we can effectively parallelize so that this
issue doesn't hold up E deployment.

Regards,

Zooko