intOREnet standards thread

[Apuly]

Or we make it simpler:

Total success:
A: This is a protocol request for protocol X
B: Affirmative

B online but does not use protocol X:
A: This is a protocol request for protocol X
B: Denied: protocol not supported

B is not online:
A: This is a protocol request for protocol X
B: ...

B is online but A isn't reachable:
A: This is a protocol request for protocol X
B: Denied: not reachable

When designing these protocols, you must keep in mind that there's very limited bandwidth and extremely high delay.
The amount of overhead that your protocol has is so ridiculously high, sending a single packet would take a couple of minutes.
It's important to get rid of as much overhead as possible, and I think that my implementation has as little as would be practicable.