Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst-12

"Vijay K. Gurbani" <vkg@bell-labs.com> Fri, 02 December 2011 22:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst-12
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On 12/02/2011 03:25 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> the above is incorrect... It is not important which side establishes
> the SCTP association. No matter how it was established, a uni-directional
> stream is outgoing for one side, incoming for the other.
> After the association has been established, you have n uni-directional
> streams from A to B, and m uni-directional streams from B to A.
>
> For the n streams, A is the outgoing side, B the incoming. For the m
> streams, B is the outgoing side, A is the incoming side. No matter
> if A is client, B is server, vice versa, or both were acting as peers.

Michael: OK, I suspect that the average reader of your draft
will have much more SCTP context than I do (my mind wants to view
SCTP through the TCP lens).  So, I will defer to the modified
text you suggested in your earlier email [1].

I have no further comments.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/gen-art/current/msg06952.html

Thanks,

- vijay
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