----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Py" <michel(_at_)arneill-py(_dot_)sacramento(_dot_)ca(_dot_)us>
To: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net>
Cc: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu(_at_)CITYNET(_dot_)NET>;
<ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:41 PM
Subject: RE: APEX
Dave,
Could you share what motivated the choice of the word "datagram" for
APEX? What puzzles me is that APEX rides on top of TCP, a
connection-oriented protocol. APEX might be stateless, but if it rides
on top of TCP how could you call it connectionless (which would be why
one uses the word "datagram") ?
Thanks
Michel.
Sounds like it should ride on a faster UDP connection,
if CRC and error checking isn't necessary, but that's probably why he chose
TCP, a secure transfer.