Application-Initiated Check-Pointing via the Port Control Protocol
RFC 7767, “Application-Initiated Check-Pointing via the Port Control Protocol”, is an Informational document published in February 2016 by S. Vinapamula, S. Sivakumar, M. Boucadair, T. Reddy. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies a mechanism for a host to indicate via the Port Control Protocol (PCP) which connections should be protected against network failures. These connections will then be subject to high-availability mechanisms enabled on the network side.
This approach assumes that applications and/or users have more visibility about sensitive connections than any heuristic that can be enabled on the network side to guess which connections should be check-pointed.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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