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

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 01-Jun-23 11:33, Robert Stanford via Internet-history wrote:
> On 1/6/23 05:30, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
>>
>>
>>   - 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.)
>>
> 
> This now somewhat exists in Multipath TCP.

And https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-quic-multipath/
And for that matter in SHIM6 (RFC 5533) although that's failed to deploy.
And the IPv6 flow label, e.g. RFC 7098.

But this all seems *slightly* too low a level for real session identification.

    Brian