----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> To: "Mykyta Yevstifeyev" <[email protected]> Cc: "Bob Hinden" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "IETF Discussion" <[email protected]> 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: <[email protected]> "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 > [email protected] > http://www.openss7.org/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
