- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:46:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: rsalz@zolera.com (Rich Salz)
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> > If I send you this (and only this), say over TCP; > > > You can't just send something "over TCP". You have to send it to a > particular port. Part of TCP is the concept that ports have semantics, > some centrally assigned, and others not. Granted, but those "semantics" are very coarse grained; they identify the application as a whole (port 25 is inbound email, port 80 is inbound Web traffic, etc..), not what I was referring to, the individual application semantics (SMTP DATA, HTTP GET). MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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