Re: [nmrg] SCTP

Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Thu, 13 April 2000 16:16 UTC

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:16:27 +0200
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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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>>>>> J P Martin-Flatin writes:

JP> You might be interested in reading about SCTP, which lies
JP> somewhere between TCP and UDP:

JP> draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-08.txt
JP> draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-applicability-00.txt

JP> Perhaps a good candidate to transport policies.

JP> Juergen, what about an SNMP over SCTP mapping?  ;-)

Go ahead if you think this makes sense.

(Personally, I have no clue how to implement something like this 
since a new transport protocol will take years to become universally
available. But this is of course not an argument for not doing a
transport mapping for SCTP or even implementing SCTP in your 
favourite kernel.)

/js

Re: [nmrg] SCTP Juergen Schoenwaelder
[nmrg] SCTP J.P. Martin-Flatin