Re: Protocol Definition

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I suspect that the "correct" choices depends upon how you look at the analogy. What seemed to me the closest analog to "process" would be the actual messages on the wires.

yours,
Joel

On 1/5/2012 10:03 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:


On 1/5/2012 1:41 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
Association, to my mind, means a transport layer connection, hence
it's usage in
SNMP and other OSI-related things.

Session isn't much less damaged, as a term, I admit, but it is in
common usage.
And like algorithms, and protocols, you can open up a session to find
other
sessions inside.


Actually, my recollection is that 'association' was an application-level
construct from OSI.

But I came to the same conclusion as you: "session" is an established
term in IETF parlance and has the basic reality of describing a protocol
in operation between two (or more?) hosts/endsystems/endpoints/...

Does this resonate with others?

d/
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