[ih] Failed Expectations: A Deep Dive Into the Internet’s 40 Years of Evolution (Geoff Huston)

[Robert Stanford]

On 1/6/23 05:30, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
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>  - An association (session) layer.  This would have made mobility much 
> easier by allowing an "association" to span multiple transport 
> connections as devices move and change their IP addresses.  It also 
> could have reduced the web's addiction to cookies. (OSI made the 
> mistake of making their session layer excessively complicated,  
> incomprehensibly documented, and never explaining what it was good for.)
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This now somewhat exists in Multipath TCP.