MRC@CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (Mark Crispin) (05/26/89)
Now that I've had a few more minutes to think it over, I think that Barry Margolin's suggestion is the right one, and it should go into the host requirements RFC. We could make the rate less often (e.g. 5 minutes) and require that the retransmission period be a certain minimum (24 hours). In return, application-level timeouts can be banned except for administrative purposes (e.g. a site that limits ANONYMOUS FTP access to 30 minutes). -- Mark -- -------