Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal moving forward[WasRe: [tcpm] Is this a problem?]
Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Mon, 26 November 2007 05:00 UTC
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Subject: Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal moving forward[WasRe: [tcpm] Is this a problem?]
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Anantha Ramaiah (ananth) wrote: > > >> No, that is not what the RFC says; as Joe has pointed out, >> the RFC says what TCP MUST do (and that changing it is a big >> deal). Note the title of the RFC - 'Requirements for >> Internet Hosts - Communication Layers' - and that there is a >> companion RFC1123, dated now because applications have moved >> on, but you will not find in the latter prohibitions on >> applications terminating connections. >> RFC1122 defines what is available for applications to use, >> what applications can rely on; it does not define what those >> applications do with that functionality. >> >> So; is there a problem? Yes, but it could be regarded as an >> implementation problem rather than a protocol one, and >> certainly not worth a change in TCP. >> Worth an RFC? may be. > > IMO, the informational RFC which is what is being attempted, should > clarify this. The whole point of my question was to understand whether > terminating a connection stuck in persist state is considered RFC 1122 > compliant. It appears from responses so far, it is compliant. 1122 allows terminating a connection at any time for the reason that the application has instructed so. 1122 makes no distinction about the progress of a connection affecting that control. Joe
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