RE: Design teams

["Bason, Chris" <cbason@verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:58 PM
> To: Brian W. Spolarich
> Cc: Jordyn A. Buchanan; Bill Manning; George Michaelson; 
> Peter Chow; Zhu
> Yu; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> Subject: RE: Design teams
> 
> 
> At 07:49 PM 3/21/2001, Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
> >   A particular implementation might open several connections to a
> >given peer and use those in a similar manner to pooled database
> >connections.
> 
> Thank you for providing the glinching reason to use beep:  
> multiplexing 
> data streams over a single connection.  (Multiple TCP 
> connections cause 
> problems.)
> 

The use of multiplexing also introduces a problem in 
that when a TCP connection is dropped (for whatever reason)
you lose ALL ongoing transactions through X number of data
streams. X being the number of channels opened within the
multiplexed TCP connection.

> d/
> 
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