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Re: [Taps] TCP components

Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> Sun, 21 June 2015 02:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Taps] TCP components
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On 6/19/2015 6:55 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
> It's explicit - see section 3.8 of RFC 793. The issue with that variant
> is that it captures the state of TCP in 1981; it has evolved quite a bit
> since then. Although we do have a 793-bis in the works, the update of
> that section hasn't been tackled yet.

I'm not sure that it will be tackled, but we should discuss that on the
TCPM list :).  Since there are no newer RFCs that alter, deprecate, or
replace that API, I don't think we have a good basis to change it in
793bis.

It's still pretty reasonable in my opinion.

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Wes Eddy
MTI Systems

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