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Revision: 419
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Date:     Wed Jul 27 05:33:55 2011
Log:      Added 'Relationship of Tests and Control Protocols' section.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=419

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTProtocol.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTProtocol.wiki      Wed Jul 27 04:47:14 2011
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 In this document, the key  
words "MUST", "REQUIRED", "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED", and "MAY" are to be  
interpreted as described in [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt RFC2119].

 === Relationship of Tests and Control Protocols ===
+
+NDTP actually consists of two inter-related set of protocols: NDTP-Control  
and NDTP-Tests. NDTP-Control is used to initiate, start, and stop test  
sessions and to fetch their results, whereas NDTP-Tests is a set of smaller  
sub-protocols used to exchange test packets between two measurement nodes.
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+NDTP-Tests consists of five smaller sub-protocols: Middlebox test, Simple  
firewall test, C2S throughput test, S2C throughput test and META test.  
These tests are completely independent from each other and can be run in  
any order. Moreover, new NDTP-Tests protocols can be easily created and  
integrated into the existing tests ecosystem.
+
+NDTP-Control is designed to support the negotiation of test sessions and  
results retrieval in a straightforward manner. At session initiation, there  
is a negotiation of the test suite and session start time. Moreover, server  
version is being verified to discover the possibility of incompatibilities.  
Additionally, NDTP-Control defines an exact message format, which greatly  
increase the general protocol reliability and allows other NDTP-Tests  
protocols to communicate in a convenient and secure fashion.
+
+We believe that NDTP-Control protocol can effectively be used to implement  
not only new types of clients, but also can be treated as a generic  
framework to create and combine with each other completely new NDTP-Tests  
protocols.
+
 === Logical Model ===
 == Protocol Overview ==
 == NDTP-Control ==