On 4/7/2016 11:44 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Joe Touch <[email protected]> writes:
>> For connectionless protocols, "CONNECT" is often the basic primitive by
>> which a user indicates the socket pair (address/port) of the remote end.
> 
> The trouble I see is that the concept of "listening" is not covered.

It depends on what you mean by "listen".

If you mean "wait for a message", that's a "read"

If you mean "coordinate state with the other end", that is not part of
UDP semantics.

> The passive or listening endpoint doesn't initiate a "connect" operation
> to indicate the address/port of the remote end, that is indicated by the
> arrival of a packet from the remote end.  As I read the draft, it seems
> to assume that both ends can do a "connect" before they exchange any
> packets at all.

IMO that's a failure of the current text to match UDP semantics.

Joe

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