% > Turn it any way you want, TCP sessions can only survive renumbering through
% > end to end mechanisms...
%
% Which raises the interesting (to me anyway) question: Is there value in
% considering a new protocol, layered on top of TCP, but beneath new
% applications, that provides an "association" the life of which transcends
% the TCP transports upon which it is constructed?
%
% I believe that if we had such a protocol that it would be a useful tool to
% solve many of the juggling acts that transpire under the heading of
% "mobile networking" as well as providing a way to continue (or
% "resume") connectivity after IP address changes.
%
% (I will, of course, be suitably embarrassed if someone points out that
% work is already going on to do this.)
%
% --karl--
The most visable one was implemented at UCLA in 1996. Built using
a per-session 32bit sequence. My idea was to use the DNS lable instead
of a fixed 32bit number. A bit harder... :)
--bill
