Re: Drafting mux WG charter

> But you layer on top of TCP, so stream reconstruction will be required.
> This makes it considerably harder to handle.

Yes, this makes it harder; I'm not sure I'm ready to say "considerably".  For example, a firewall doesn't have to buffer the whole stream --- because the payload is preceeded by a byte count, it can just be skipped over with a simple state machine.

Received on Monday, 22 February 1999 18:12:23 UTC