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	Title		: On the Design of Application Protocols
	Author(s)	: M. Rose
	Filename	: draft-mrose-blocks-appldesign-02.txt
	Pages		: 28
	Date		: 16-Jun-00
	
This memo describes the design principles for the Blocks eXtensible
eXchange Protocol[35] (BXXP). BXXP is a generic application protocol
framework for connection-oriented, asynchronous request-response
interactions. BXXP permits multiplexing of independent
request/response streams over a single transport connection,
supporting both textual and binary messages.
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