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Re: [Taps] TCP components

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 18 June 2015 22:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Taps] TCP components
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+1

On 6/18/2015 9:44 AM, Michael Welzl wrote:
> *My*  goal is, and has always been, to provide a simpler, general API
> that is protocol independent. Note that this is not only for
> simplicity for ease of use BUT also for the sake of being able to
> automatize. After all the major goal is to remove the strict binding
> between applications and a specific protocol choice.
>
> To be able to do this (documents 2 and 3), we first need a list of
> the existing services - our toolbox, if you wish (document 1).
> Figuring out what's missing / wrong about today's APIs (except that
> they are bound to a specific protocol) has never been*my*  major
> intention, and I certainly don't see that as the goal of this
> document. I'd be surprised if that's what the charter suggests?! But
> of course my opinion is only what it is, the charter reflects the
> consensus...

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