Presence and IntComm WG

[Alistair Munro <>]

Hi Ben,

> The congestion-control worrywart in me was not amused to see that the
> files are actually transported using "a simple UDP-based file transfer
> protocol."  The rest of it seems sensible at first glance.

I suppose it depends exactly what "simple" means. I can't work out from the 
references how the protocol works (FSP?), and I don't have time right now 
to go through the code. However, the TODOs seem to indicate an intention to 
convert to TFTP, so this may indicate how the general level of simplicity 
expected. I wonder how TFTP performs over many hops?

Regards,

Alistair


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