----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Mykyta Yevstifeyev" <evnikita2@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Bob Hinden" <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx>; <tsvwg@xxxxxxxx>; "IETF Discussion" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:06 AM > Mykyta, > > RDP is still in use (I know of companies using it). It is > used heavily as a transport for a "popular brand" of NAS for > dial access call control and was a precursor to MEGACO/H.248. > RDP was the initial transport used for gateway control (such > as SGCP) until SCTP was developed. Many commercial gateways > still support these older pre-standard (to MEGACO) control > protocols. Some older devices still provisioned in the network > only support the older protocols. > > Yah, I know it was EXPERIMENTAL, but we had nothing before SCTP > that would fit the bill. Its limitations was one of the driving > forces behind developing SCTP. One of the original protocol > attempts abandonned before SCTP was based on RDP. > > Please leave RDP alone. > >From the tsvwg list Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:21:38 +0200 Message-ID: <AANLkTi=wOurS4rfJrvNH64pn8_RoXrfJ9-HioXG8XeAt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "I personally think there is no useful way in moving NETBLT spec to historic, as well as RDP. I consider that useful only for IRTP. Do you think there is still a need in such protocol? what has it been made for? Mykyta." which sounds like consensus on NETBLT and RDP. Tom Petch > --brian > > -- > Brian F. G. Bidulock > bidulock@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.openss7.org/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf