Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal moving forward[WasRe: [tcpm] Is this a problem?]

[Ted Faber <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:41:53PM -0500, John Heffner wrote:
> I really have to disagree here; I do not believe an OS terminating a 
> connection violates the spirit of 1122.  Things like processes, address 
> spaces, etc., are well outside the TCP standard's realm.  In my view, an 
> operating system (the kernel, a helper daemon, or other) can be 
> considered a "User" of TCP (in RFC793 terminology), and be fully 
> compliant when making API calls (including ABORT) to connections that 
> might be "owned" by some other process.

I agree with this interpetation, you know, as a regular guy.

> One question: is the deleteTCB(12) state of RFC4022 in conflict with 
> RFC1122/RFC793?

There's nothing there that offends me.  That looks like a request by a
manager to an operating system to call ABORT on a connection.  I assume
that the managed entity might choose to ignore such a request (e.g. it
is a request to terminate the connection to the manager over which the
request came :-)).

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