At 11:56 AM -0600 9/20/01, Chris Jones wrote:
>Would anybody be willing to point me at reliable streaming protocols
>that aren't TCP?  For work, I'm looking at building something with a
>lot of TCP's properties, but there's a desire to diverge from this a
>bit.  For example, we're talking about more complex reassembly, where
>you never ask for retransmissions of packets you've seen.

CFDP  CCSDS File Delivery Protocol

It's a file/message transfer protocol designed for space links.  And 
I mean links that aren't just to earth orbit where TCP almost works. 
Look at <http://www.ccsds.org/itshot.html> under reviews in process. 
If you are in the USA (so we don't have to fight ITAR restrictions on 
spacecraft data) then we have a prototype implementation we can 
probably give you.  It's been tested against two European and a 
Japanese implementation of the Red-4 version of the protocol and the 
Red-5 version is the result of those tests.  This should be very 
close to the final.

Contact Scott.C.Burleigh@jpl.nasa.gov for more information.
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