[Sussex] FW: Application for protocol-number

[Steve Dobson]

INSIDErs

I have submitted application to IANA (www.iana.org) for a 
protocol-number for out transport protocol (see below).

As I was filling it out a thought occurred:  Should we write
our specs for INSIDE as RFC?

Would allow the system to be completely open!  If some one
wants a Win32 server, well there are the specs, go implement
it.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dobson 
Sent: 23 August 2002 13:10
To: iana at iana.org; Steve Dobson
Subject: Application for protocol-number


    
Name :
Steve Dobson
    
E-mail :
sdobson at manh.com
        
Protocol Number :
TCP
    
Message Formats :
An ASCII format simular to SMTP/FTP...

Message Types :  
A request/responce pair.  Cancel & Interrupt will probably be added later
    
Message opcodes :
This design work is on-going.  The design calls for the server to
configure the message op codes depending up the security restrictions
imposed by the super user.
     
Message Sequences :
The client request a document from the document store and waits for the
document to be returned (or cancels)
The client submits a new document to the document store
The client submits a admendment to a document in the document store
The client requests a catalogue of the documents in the document store
    
Protocol functions :
Document transfer either between the client and document store server,
or P2P between document stores.
     
Broadcast or Multicast used ?
no
    
How and what for Broadcast or Multicast is used (if used):
    
                
Description :
We are designing a P2P document system that allows users to make amendments 
that will automatally added to the document (with out lossing orginal
content).

For example:
User of the HOWTO documents can added there own experences to the base HOWTO
document which are then available to the next reader of the HOWTO.  Rather
than
make a new document all knowledge can be pooled in a single document and
diseminated around the network.
    
Enter a name for the protocol:
Inside Document Transfer Protocol