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

2007-09-17 07:49:23
Fast Select was a single packet that opened, transfered data, and closed a connection. The same as what Mr. Ford's description. There was nothing remotely "transactional" about Fast Select. It was a direct counter to the proposal to put datagrams in X.25. It was a silly idea, then and it remains so. Deeper thinking about the nature of the problem would have yielded simpler results than SST.

I do admit to taking a cheap shot at one of the more obvious weirdnesses in an amazingly weird paper as SIGCOMM continues to promulgate the groupthink, rather than break it.

At 15:07 +0100 2007/09/17, Tony Finch wrote:
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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