Re: [tcpm] New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-sno-00.txt

Rui Paulo <rpaulo@apple.com> Mon, 09 September 2013 18:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] New Version Notification for draft-touch-tcpm-sno-00.txt
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On 4 Sep 2013, at 17:34, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:

> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> Regarding the recent discussion on TCPMUX, we've revived some of our earlier work on portnames, focusing on just the ability to decouple the service identifier from the SYN destination port.
> 
> We have both Linux and FreeBSD implementations underway. A revised draft has just been submitted with the details, below.
> 
> I'm hoping to publish this as an independent submission, but if there's interest in running it through TCPM please let me know.

>From a quick read, I only see one use case mentioned: proxy servers. Are there others?
Changing the TCP stacks of these endpoints just to accommodate a bigger number of connections seems like the wrong approach when you can rework the network architecture and add more proxy servers.

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Rui Paulo