Re: [Isms] Transport protocol discussion

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at rtfm.com>]

"David B Harrington" <dbharrington at comcast.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have some concerns about trying to select "the" ISMS transport
> protocol; why are we trying to choose "the" transport rather than
> trying to choose a security application (e.g. TLS, SASL, SSH) that
> might incidentally be able to run over different transport protocols?
> Or is that what is meant by "selecting a transport protocol"?
>
> If we talk about selecting one transport protocol (i.e. UDP vs TCP),
> do we have new research with independently-verifiable statistics about
> the reliability and performance of these protocols as a transport for
> SNMP? If we don't have new info, I would consider discussing this for
> the umpteenth time to be a waste of face-to-face meeting time.

My $.02:

The important transport question is whether support for datagram
mode is a requirement. If it is, that substantially constrains
the solution set--and potentially requires some more design work :)

-Ekr

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