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From: braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  NIC host considered hero
Message-ID: <8809132204.AA01771@braden.isi.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 88 22:04:49 GMT
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Dave,

To qoute from my favorite (draft) document, the Host Requirements RFC:


 "UDP is almost a null protocol; the only services it provides over IP are
  checksumming of data and multiplexing by port number.  Therefore, an
  application program running over UDP must deal directly with a number of
  the end-to-end communication problems a connection-oriented protocol
  would have handled -- e.g., retransmission for reliable delivery,
  packetization and reassembly, flow control, congestion avoidance, etc."

Yep, all those things!  For "flow control", read "handle Source Quenches".

Bob Braden