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Session Control Protocol vs ICE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellis S. Cohen)
Tue Dec 20 20:37:52 1994
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 02:25:38 +0100
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From: "Ellis S. Cohen" <ellis@osf.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
In your message of Nov 20th about HTTP-NG, you described
SCP, a session control protocol, which supports multiple
conversations over a single TCP connection.
Before standardizing a new protocol in this area, you
may want to take a good look at the ICE protocol and
the ICElib library for it, which is part of X11R6,
and which was released this past summer.
ICE also supports multiple conversations over a single
connection, with support for separate authentication
of each conversation. ICE is designed to be
used over TCP or any other reliable connection-oriented
transport. ICElib is thread-safe and can be used in either
a single or multi-thread environment.
A great deal of design work and testing went into ICE,
both as part of the X Consortium review process, and
as a result of using it to implement the X Session
Management protocol and library.
The best contact for more information is Ralph Mor
at the X Consortium, mor@x.org
-- Ellis
