[ih] "The Great Debate"

[Dave Crocker]

>    - A session layer - which is a nice way to span application level 
> relationships that span the failure and reconstruction of underlying 
> transport connections as devices move about.  This could have greatly 
> simplified IP mobility and simplified context-keeping things like web 
> cookies. 


Interestingly, the specification for TLS is, really, the specification 
of an extensible session layer, but with this particular use.

A long time ago, I tried to garner some interest in adding to it, to 
support using multiple, independent paths between applications, so app 
interaction would not be delayed or terminated by a single TCP 
connection outage.

That is, to have a virtual TCP connection, on top of this, that could 
map down to multiple 'normal' TCP connections.

d/

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