- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 11:48:02 MDT
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: jg@w3.org, blampson@microsoft.com, janssen@parc.xerox.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
I agree. There are at least these four alternatives available to us:
1. Adopt an existing protocol and its implementation
2. Adopt an existing protocol and adapt some existing implementation
3. Adopt an existing protocol and do a new implementation
4. Do a new protocol and a new implementation
(And lots of others in between).
I believe that they are listed in order of desirability.
Will someone please try to explain why we need something besides
TCP? In particular, what problem is RPC intended to solve?
The "excess overhead packets" problem melts away with persistent
connections; the extra 6 or 7 packets and one RTT are quickly
amortized by the high locality of requests.
-Jeff
Received on Friday, 11 August 1995 12:31:30 UTC