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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I agree, there is in practice (at least for the moment, when everyone is trying to put a TSA together, more or less draft compliant), no reason for having such flags. But, it is also not stupid. Let's imagine that some day the TSP will be really used by everyone. :) Hard to imagine, but let's try. This will rise the problem of DOS attack, and some people, (as I have done myself) will implement the TSA and limit the number of parallel requests (and let's understand by this the number of spawn processes, or threads) to a fix number. So they will just return an error back. This is actually not a nice thing to do. And I presume, people there, writing the draft, tried to be nice: well, if I get a request, but, I don't have time to give a response right away, because I am busy, let's store the request and tell the person to try again sometimes later. Perhaps there is also the possibility that your clock is at that moment not available, (I would like to believe that there will be TSA's out there that won't read the time from the local system, like I do at the moment...) or maybe some other resource... how could I know?? :) In any case you have to take cautions about the overflooding with requests (or even pending requests, that havn't been answered yet) Well, at least this is the reason I can imagine. Perhaps there are also some other (dark!) reasons, but I would like to hear/read about them from the TSP gurus. :)) Kindly regards, Cristian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mittwoch, 12. September 2001 10:19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Question about TSP (rfc 3161) > > > > Hi, > > > I would like to know what are the reasons for introducing the > flags "pollReq", > "pollResp" and "negPollRep" in the socket based protocol > (section 3.3). > > > It would mean that a tsa server can divide the der code he > calculated for the > response. But why would it do that? > > > Thanks > > > Libel > > > -- > Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i iQA/AwUBO6C0P8V5iyNCxCiSEQL9aQCg/DF+dzS6QV+dLFvVV6HTNTF3xvgAoOaZ GSkggGhyqVBA6fFIRTnn+4bu =FFSm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----