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- From: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
- Subject: Re: new AAL (SSCOP?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.232413.6580@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA USA
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:20:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.135828.5489@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>, myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes...
- >In article <1992Nov8.231642.7509@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) writes:
- >>Just in case anyone's wondering, SSCOP (service-specific
- >>connection-oriented protocol) is the service-specific sublayer that sits
- >>above AAL3/4 OR AAL 5.
- > There are lots of connection oriented protocols. What makes this one
- >so special. If its value added is a rate oriented flow control, then
- >why not fix TCP, or use VTMP or XTP or any of a number of other
- >proposals. What makes SSCOP the preferred protocol?
-
- SSCOP doesn't have rate-oriented flow control.
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- SSCOP is a general-purpose sublayer that provides elements of
- procedure for recovering lost packets. That is, it does what other
- connection-oriented DATA LINK procedures, like LAPF, do, and what
- connection-oriented TRANSPORT procedures, like TCP, do. It differs
- in that there can be many separate gaps being recovered at once.
-
- The SSCOP STAT message includes a list of gaps in the received
- sequence. So you may have received everything up to 8831, missed
- 8832-8834, gotten 8835-8901, missed 8902, gotten 8903-8908, missed
- 8909, gotten 8910-8955, and that's the latest you've heard. TCP
- has no way to say all that at once, so it can't recover them all
- at once, all the while sending up to the credit limit.
-
- There is a project in X3S3 (CSRDLC) to do the same thing with HDLC,
- and the two groups are in contact. The syntax may end up different
- but the semantics are likely to end up very close. Interoperable?
- Maybe.
-
- It always amazes me how IP fanatix think that the entire Internet
- Protocol Suite as of the late 1980s was handed down on Sinai.
- ---
- Fred R. Goldstein goldstein@carafe.tay2.dec.com
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