[AFS3-std] Re: Encoding IPvN addresses

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:27:29 PM -0600 Andrew Deason 
<adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 20:36:53 -0500
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I support having port numbers so that hosting multiple cells on the
>> > same host may be possible. How would port numbers be handled, if not
>> > alongside the address?
>>
>> as another element in an RPC payload?
>
> But if someone has an endpoint with a different 'port' width, or some
> entirely different equivalent of a 'port', we have to rev the whole
> protocol?

No; we probably need to do something for the transport layer along the same 
lines as what we're talking about for the session layer.  But let's not 
conflate them.

-- Jeff