Re: Telnet Transfer Control Option

[Philippe-Andre Prindeville <[e-mail]>]

> >While cleaning out some old mail I realized that I never sent this out.
> >I received this a while back, with the request that the group review it.

> This looks interesting.  In SNA terms this is equivalent to a Clsdst pass (Close
> Destination and Pass (I think I got that right :) )).  SNA has for a VERY long
> time had the ability for the host side of a connection to close the connection
> and force a reestablishment of it with another host application.  This is used
> be Session Managers and many other things.

Hmm.  First, I see a security problem.  I don't necessarily want
the existance or utilisation of my machine being divulged to a
third party via a "hand-off" (maybe Russ or Mike would be better
off explaining that).  Second, if I pay for packets coming from or
going to my machine, do I want to pay for the extra expense if that
third party is quite a ways off (in terms of $$$).

For instance, I don't pay for national traffic, but I would pay for
international traffic if I were an industrial site.  If I start using
a local server that hands-me-off to a foreign server, I might end up
involuntarily paying big bucks $$.

-Philip