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Transport Functions Discusses major functions required, e.g. Congestion control Reliability Large message handling Believe that all of these are needed for at least some elements of MIH support Note: reliability/congestion support relates to high-performance (rapid/adaptive) handling of network layer packet problems Assumes simple/robust handling of MIH service problems above the common part Defining a signalling transport without intrinsic congestion control for the bulk of the traffic is probably a non-starter in the IETF Identify some options for designing the support: Rolling your own (highly undesirable) Re-use of existing transport protocols |