Re: Information integration at client or server?
assar@nada.kth.se
Fri, 22 Jul 94 06:39:00 +0200
karl@cavebear.com writes:
>
> > But if we're going to try to boil the web down to one protocol,
> > let's get it right:
> >
> > * cut out the TCP connection set-up time by using a UDP
> > based protocol like prospero/ARDP.
>
> We have a funny mix of interactions over the client-server path.
> There are lots of fairly small transactions which possibly would be
> handled better by a transaction oriented transport than with TCP.
>
> On the other hand we move a lot of big files and this is where
> the optimizations of TCP/IP can be really useful, especially the
> changes made to avoid network congestion.
Have you looked at T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions, RFC1644?
/assar