Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-18 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2007-9-17, at 17:40, ext John Day wrote: Fast Select was a single packet that opened, transfered data, and closed a connection. The same as what Mr. Ford's description. What you outline above is very different from SST. I'm surprised that after reading the paper you'd think that there

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2007-9-14, at 21:54, ext Tony Finch wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Keith Moore wrote: I actually don't think that having multiple concurrent TCP connections between two peers is a bad thing. sure we could have a transport protocol that provided multiple streams, but why bother when

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread Fred Baker
Dumb question of the month. With the exception of the last claim (...can prioritize...), this could just as easily describe SCTP. What here is new? And define prioritize? On Sep 17, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: You might be interested in Bryan Ford's SST paper from this year's

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2007-9-17, at 12:13, ext Fred Baker wrote: Dumb question of the month. With the exception of the last claim (...can prioritize...), this could just as easily describe SCTP. What here is new? And define prioritize? For how this relates to SCTP, let me refer you to Section 6. (And yes,

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread Michael Tuexen
Hi Lars, comment in-line. Best regards Michael On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Lars Eggert wrote: On 2007-9-17, at 12:13, ext Fred Baker wrote: Dumb question of the month. With the exception of the last claim (...can prioritize...), this could just as easily describe SCTP. What here is

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread John Day
I am afraid that I must agree with Fred. There is nothing very new in this paper and its publication is merely another indication of how far down the blind alley we have gone. I was surprised SIGCOMM even published dressing up X.25 Fast Select with fancy words. Amazing. At 2:13 -0700

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, John Day wrote: I am afraid that I must agree with Fred. There is nothing very new in this paper and its publication is merely another indication of how far down the blind alley we have gone. I was surprised SIGCOMM even published dressing up X.25 Fast Select with fancy

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread John Day
Fast Select was a single packet that opened, transfered data, and closed a connection. The same as what Mr. Ford's description. There was nothing remotely transactional about Fast Select. It was a direct counter to the proposal to put datagrams in X.25. It was a silly idea, then and it

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Keith Moore wrote: Offhand I don't know why it should be necessary to build a mechanism that spans several transport lifetimes. TLS session caches. HTTP cookies. FTP control connections. Apps that want to deal with concurrent data streams within one user's session

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-14 Thread Keith Moore
Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Keith Moore wrote: Offhand I don't know why it should be necessary to build a mechanism that spans several transport lifetimes. TLS session caches. HTTP cookies. FTP control connections. okay fine (at least for the first two) but should

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Keith Moore wrote: I actually don't think that having multiple concurrent TCP connections between two peers is a bad thing. sure we could have a transport protocol that provided multiple streams, but why bother when concurrent TCP connections works pretty well? I

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-13 Thread Karl Auerbach
David Conrad wrote: How do you renumber the IP address stored in the struct sockaddr_in in a long running critical application? ... If you had a separation between locator and identifier, the application could bind to the identifier and renumbering events could occur on the locators without

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-13 Thread Keith Moore
Offhand I don't know why it should be necessary to build a mechanism that spans several transport lifetimes. I would much prefer that we re-engineer our transport protocols to let them work in terms of endpoint IDs. In particular, checkpoints would seem to make life more complicated for

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Sep 13, 2007, at 23:00 , Karl Auerbach wrote: The idea is this: An association is an end-to-end relationship between a pair of applications that potentially spans several transport lifetimes. Wouldn't that be the OSI session layer (that IP doesn't have)? taking a cue from ISO/OSI, the

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-13 Thread Tony Li
On Sep 13, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: The idea is this: An association is an end-to-end relationship between a pair of applications that potentially spans several transport lifetimes. Wouldn't that be the OSI session layer (that IP doesn't have)? Not necessarily. A

Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-13 Thread Karl Auerbach
Tony Li wrote: A key question here is whether the 'association' is a single connection or not. While the association may span the change of underlying infrastructure, the real question is whether it presents a single concatenated transport abstraction or if it's multiple connections. I