Re: [dhcwg] Bulk Leasequery for DHCPv6

[Ted Lemon <mellon at fugue.com>]

On Oct 16, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Marcus Goller wrote:
> To me it would not seem very clean to specifiy message type A,B and  
> C to be allowed only over UDP for example, D, E and F only over  
> TCP, if it could be avoided.

But that's not really the choice you have.   The choice you have is,  
do you use TCP in cases where you need to reliably transfer bulk  
data, or do you implement an additional UDP-based reliability  
mechanism?   So in order to use UDP, you have to replicate  
functionality already present in TCP.   Which is why the objection to  
using UDP in this case.

So again, given that we would have to implement a whole new  
retransmission protocol in order to use UDP in this case, do you  
seriously think that we should support both UDP and TCP?


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