Arg #TOTSCO

They casually send out a bulletin on handing incoming messages, time to respond, and handing duplicated. The duplicate handling advised basically MANDATES that senders have a unique source correlationID on messages. The spec does not say that (do tell me if I am wrong) and the examples have duplicates.

So updating NOTSCO to report duplicates now.

Why can we not have a good specification?

@revk
"no, we can't fix this obviously broken spec because it's under a change freeze"
"here's a bulletin fixing a small area of brokenness, but it's totally not breaking the change freeze because it's only a bulletin".

Yep, sounds about right.

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@ahnlak @revk this is kinda how Formula 1 works. When a team finds a hole in the regulations, a "technical directive" is issued, not a new version of the regs

@falken @ahnlak the bulletin does not even say senders have to be unique - it just explains receivers can treat as a duplicate message. So even the change is just “implied”.

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