I am very happy to be part of this email list. Thank you very much.
Dr. Alper K. Demir
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 falk(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU wrote:
Hello-
A mail list has been created to discuss the Datagram Control Protocol
(DCP). DCP is a minimal general purpose transport-layer protocol
providing only two core functions:
- the establishment, maintenance and teardown of an unreliable packet
flow.
- congestion control of that packet flow.
Within the constraints of providing these core functions, DCP aims
to be a general purpose protocol, minimizing the overhead of packet
header size or end-node processing as much as possible. Therefore,
DCP is as simple as possible, and as far as reasonably possible,
it should avoid providing higher-level transport functionality.
DCP will provide an congestion-controlled, unreliable packet stream,
without TCP's reliability or in-order delivery semantics. Additional
unicast, flow-based application functionality can be layered over
DCP.
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http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dcp.
Updated drafts have been submitted to the IETF and can be found at
http://www.aciri.org/kohler/dcp/.
A draft working group charter will be sent to the list in the next
couple days.
A BoF is scheduled at IETF-52 in Salt Lake City on Tuesday at 5pm.
The BoF agenda can be found at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/01dec/dcp.txt.
--aaron