Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

[Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, John Day wrote:

> I am afraid that I must agree with Fred.  There is nothing very new in this
> paper and its publication is merely another indication of how far down the
> blind alley we have gone.  I was surprised SIGCOMM even published dressing up
> X.25 Fast Select with fancy words.  Amazing.

Isn't Fast Select more like RFC 1644 TCP for Transactions than Ford's
Structured Streams? IIUC, X.25 and SCTP have similarly static multiplexing
configurations and delimited records, unlike SST.

Tony.
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