I certainly agree with Jay on this subject. I don't know of any transport
that does not provide some method of flow control. Certainly TCP provides
an excellent flow control mechanism.
I don't recall this requirement discussed in any of the meetings in
Austin. Where did this come from?
Ron Bergman
Dataproducts Corp.
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jay Martin wrote:
> Tom Hastings wrote:
> >
> > In discussing the host-to-device requirements, we came up with a requirement
> > that the printer be able to feed back information about whether it was
> > choked up with data or needed more data for the current job.
> >
> > So we could have events like:
> >
> > Slow down data transfer
> > Speed up data transfer
>
> This doesn't quite sound right. I mean, flow control should be mandated
> by the underlying transport, right? We certainly don't want to reinvent
> such a key aspect of end-to-end communications within IPP.
>
> ...jay
>
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