Re: SMTP slow???

[Mats Jansson <mjansson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>X-Sender: t3125rm@pop3hub.is.chrysler.com
>Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:45:42 -0400
>To: Mats Jansson <mjansson@agathon.com>, ietf-ediint@imc.org
>From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@chrysler.com>
>Subject: Re: SMTP slow???
>
>At 09:02 AM 5/24/96 -0700, Mats Jansson wrote:
>>
>>Average time for round trip:  47 seconds
>>
>>IS THAT TOO SLOW???
>
>Since I could have been a Sadistician if I were crazy enough....
>
>What are the other modalities and what are the outlyers?  We penalize
>trading partners that don't get their EDIs in on time.  No excuse, there is
>always a phone down the street at the gas station.

Minimum 29 seconds, "maximum" 100 seconds.  "maximum" in quotes, because of
course we have had outlyers longer than that.  Not many, but some.  And we have
always been able to trace them back to routing problems inside one of the
trading companies.
>
>How do you handle the liablity issues of forwarding SMTP servers?  This
>implies audit trails of EDIs enroute.  I would not want to be a small ISP
>whose customers included some EDI users.  Too much liablity on my mail server.

Very good question.  No liability issue, because we have a backup solution that
only kicks in if roundtrip not accomplished within 10 minutes (which we expect
to happen less than 0.5% of the time).  I could see that this would be an area
of concern though for other implementations.  That's why the NRR is so critical.
>
>Robert Moskowitz
>Chrysler Corporation
>(810) 758-8212
>
>