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RE: Multiple Address Service for Transport (MAST)
><http://brandenburg.com/specifications/draft-crocker-mast-propo
>sal-00.txt>
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>Herewith the abstract for the proposal:
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> Classic Internet transport protocols use a single source IP
> address and a single destination IP address, as part of the
> identification for an individual data flow. TCP includes
> these in its definition of a connection and its calculation
> of the header checksum. Hence the transport service is tied
> to a particular IP address pair. This is problematic for
> multi-homed hosts and for mobile hosts. Both have multiple
> IP addresses but cannot use more than one, for any single
> transport association (context). Multiple Address Service
> for Transport (MAST) defines a mechanism that transparently
> supports association of multiple IP addresses with any
> transport association. It requires no change to the IP
> infrastructure, and no change to IP modules or transport
> modules in the end-systems. Instead, it defines a wedge
> layer between IP and transport that operates only in the end
> systems and affects only participating hosts.
can you compare your proposal with
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~bzhang/etcp/etcp_draft.txt
They do have a running code.