- From: Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:36:52 -0800
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org
> > if you can establish a single TCP connection, then you can have arbitrary
> > message patterns (e.g., initiator receives requests from listener) and/or
> > you can multiplex traffic over it, if your application so chooses.
>
> yep, it helps to be able to multiplex over a single existing connection,
> and BEEP certainly helps you do that. though in practice you may also
> need proxies that can route messages through a mesh of such connections.
right, to which i refer you to the paragraph following the one above in my
original message::
> > obviously, there are some network configurations where you can't establish
> > a TCP connection, and in cases like that, you need the help of an
> > intermediary and the BEEP tunnel profile...
where i should have said s/an intermediary/one or more intermediaries/.
/mtr
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