On 6/17/2015 1:44 AM, Michael Welzl wrote:
> I think that this discussion with Joe maybe suffered from focusing on
> TCP. 

To be fair, TCP has a simpler abstract API.

> SCTP is perhaps a better starting point because it supports
> almost everything. 

IMO, that makes it very hard as a starting point, and I also think that
TCP's variant of an API description is much better as an example.

E.g., Section 10 of RFC4960 claims it defines an abstract API
(ULP-to_SCTP), but it begins by describing a call to initialize a data
structure (INITIALIZE). That's decidedly NOT an abstract API; it's a
generic description of an implementation issue.

IMO, if we don't understand the difference between the API in RFC793 vs.
that in RFC4960 (and why 793 is a better example), then this is going to
be a very bumpy road.

Joe

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