Re: [alto] Comments on draft-kiesel-alto-reqs-01

[Lars Eggert <lars.eggert at nokia.com>]

On 2008-11-14, at 12:30, ext Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> Just to agree with Stephano, the reason you don't see this kind of  
> protocol
> state machinery more often is because the protocol either runs over  
> TCP
> (which handles a lot of transport state issues for you) or runs over  
> UDP and
> overload behavior gets specified years later (see: SIP :-)

At this time, I see no compelling reason why ALTO would need to build  
its own transport protocol, compared to simply running directly on top  
of TCP or indirectly doing so (via HTTP, SOAP, etc.)

Lars

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