On 6/5/2015 5:11 AM, Helge Backhaus wrote:
> Am 04.06.2015 um 23:20 schrieb Joe Touch:
...
>> There are many services built on top of HTTP, at which point HTTP is just
>> another part of what this document calls a "transport service".
>>
>> As a result, unless you'll be describing every possible stack between the
>> user program and the link layer,
> 
> Shouldn't this ideally be the (long-term) goal of TAPS?

This would require an exponential number of service descriptions.

IMO, it's better to describe them as a linear number of composable
components and declare the composition rules.

(that's not novel; that's what we do throughout the IETF)

>> this document cannot proceed with the current definitions.
> 
> So could a possible way forward be to leave the definitions as they are
> and add a description of the considered stack(s) to the document? For
> now "just" TCP, UDP, SCTP, ... over IPv4/6 etc.

If you ignore the deficiency of the definitions, then it's impossible to
move together on the remainder of the doc.

Joe

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