Re: FCIP/iFCP : Guarantee In-Order delivery for FC N/NL_ports

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Your reply seems to indicate that UDP or some other protocol could be used. 
Only TCP and SCTP implement the congestion control REQUIRED by the internet.

-Matt

Y P Cheng wrote:
> 
> > > But, if iFCP and FCIP use TCP encapsulation, then, we back to
> > > square zero.)
> > Please explain why/how you think iFCP and FCIP do not require the
> > use of TCP?
> >
> > -Matt Wakeley
> 
> Matt,
> 
> Certainly, both drafts have proposed TCP.
> 
> However, when two iFCP or two FCIP devices talk to another of its own kind,
> they have the freedom to use any protocol they wish, even SCTP, as long as
> the protocol provides reliable delivery.  This is because the frames are
> only received by another device of same implementation.  There is no
> interoperability issue with any legacy implementations.  Now, does the other
> protocol obeys the fairness rule of Internet?  I assume it would.
> 
> Y.P.