On 5/28/2015 11:05 AM, Mirja Kühlewind wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> here is where the confusion comes from: this doc is not about APIs,
> it’s about transport services, or to say it even more concrete,
> transport services components and features.

Such services are either inherent to the transport (e.g., in-order,
reliable delivery) or exposed as a control to the user (by the API).

I.e., APIs are necessary but not sufficient to describe transport services.

> We do have a section on
> interfaces for each protocol but that just an add-on which might or
> might not be useful to have in this document, but the core of the
> document is to describe the components that are currently implemented
> independent of the current provided (app-layer) interface and then add
> some discuss of which of these components are useful to expose to the
> app as transport services feature (and which level of detail/degree of
> decision freedom for each feature).

But then isn't it critical to also know what's already exposed, e.g., in
the existing API?

Joe

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