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expected to reply to the ping.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Message bus implementations may impose a security policy which
+ prevents certain messages from being sent or received.
+ When a message cannot be sent or received due to a security
+ policy, the message bus should send an error reply, unless the
+ original message had the <literal>NO_REPLY</literal> flag.
+ </para>
+
<sect3 id="message-bus-routing-eavesdropping">
<title>Eavesdropping</title>
<para>