Subject: Application or transport?

From: Mark Baker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:30:08 -0700

Eric,

2009/3/24 Eric Burger <[email-masked]>:
> Again, this feels like (1) a research project and (2) a transport (NOT
> applications) problem.  Yes, we are speaking about HTTP here. No, we are not
> talking about the application running on HTTP,

Of course, but neither are we talking about that application when we
call HTTP an application protocol.

> but the transport of data.
>  That is a transport, not applications, issue.

No, this is about the trans*fer* of data.  Requests and responses are
application layer concepts.

Mark.