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From: postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Reliable Datagram ??? Protocols
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Date: 15 Oct 90 18:23:32 GMT
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Hi.

"Reliable Datagram" is an oxymoron.

--jon.

	From tcp-ip-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL Fri Oct 12 17:39:16 1990
	Date: 12 Oct 90 10:12:49 GMT
	From: apple.com!erekose@apple.com  (Erik Scheelke)
	Subject: Reliable Datagram Protocols
	Sender: tcp-ip-relay@nic.ddn.mil
	To: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil

	Does anyone know of a reliable connectionless datagram protocol that
	runs on top of UDP?  Is so, is there a library out there I can get?

	Thanks in advance,
	Erik Scheelke