Re: [Anima] Bulk transfer in draft-ietf-anima-grasp-distribution-03

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 27 July 2021 02:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] Bulk transfer in draft-ietf-anima-grasp-distribution-03
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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    > In other words, the method of bulk transfer described in
    > draft-ietf-anima-grasp-distribution at Section 4.3 "Bulk Information
    > Transfer" could be improved by first negotiating a larger message size
    > than the default 2048 bytes. That might improve efficiency for
    > distributing large files. (All it really changes in a GRASP
    > implementation over TLS or TCP is the buffer sized set in two or three
    > socket recv() calls.)

Could the receiving end of the transfer simply declare their maximum in the
F_NEG or something like that?

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