[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS (ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

Bob Woodruff robert.j.woodruff at intel.com
Fri Nov 4 14:14:58 PST 2005


Rick wrote, 
>I've atttached a draft proposal for RDS from Oracle which discusses some of

>the motivation for RDS.

Couple of questions/comments on the spec.


AF_INET_OFFLOAD should be renamed to something like AF_INET_RDS.

Would something like SCTP provide the same type of capabilities
(relaible datagrams) that you are suggesting to add with RDP ?

http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/sctp.htm

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2960.html




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