> On 23. mar. 2015, at 11.34, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/22/2015 7:34 AM, Michael Welzl wrote:
>> Major:
>> - I do think that the terminology actually needs to clarify about
>> what a "service" is. Following the chain of dependencies here, it is found in
>> "Transport Service", where it says "... which provides a complete
>> service to an application."
>> 
>> The reason I think we need to define this is that we should (IMO)
>> explicitly exclude protocol functions that can improve the performance
>> of the protocol *only* depending on environment characteristics but
>> *irrespective* of the application. For example, things like ECN, SACK
>> etc. shouldn't be regarded as a "service" in my opinion.
> 
> IMO, a "service" is a coherent whole. ECN, SACK, etc. are capabilities
> within a service.
> 
> The difference is simple: a service is the smallest set of capabilities
> that can be used independent of all others.

I completely agree and apologize, that was slopping writing on my side: I 
should have said "service component". Anyway my point was that ECN, SACK etc. 
shouldn't be any of that.

Cheers,
Michael

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