----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us> To: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2@dcrocker.net> Cc: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu@CITYNET.NET>; <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:41 PM Subject: RE: APEX > Dave, > > Could you share what motivated the choice of the word "datagram" for > APEX? What puzzles me is that APEX rides on top of TCP, a > connection-oriented protocol. APEX might be stateless, but if it rides > on top of TCP how could you call it connectionless (which would be why > one uses the word "datagram") ? > > Thanks > Michel. Sounds like it should ride on a faster UDP connection, if CRC and error checking isn't necessary, but that's probably why he chose TCP, a secure transfer. > > >