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Ray, Timothy J. (GSFC-583.0) wrote:
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 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">As an
implementer of software to support
interoperability testing, there are certain decisions that I have to
make.  Two key decisions are:</span></font></p>
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  </span></font></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What
protocol(s) to
support for transferring Meta-AMS messages</span></font></p>
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  </span></font></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What
protocol(s) to
support for transferring AMS messages directly between nodes</span></font></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Has our
working group decided what, as a
minimum, is required for our interoperability testing?</span></font></p>
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My candidates would be UDP for (1) and both UDP and TCP for (2).  Lots
of others make sense in specialized contexts but might be hard to
provide to everyone involved in an interoperation test.<br>
<br>
Scott<br>
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