Subject: Re: Multiple paths in DPD

From: Peter Sylvester <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:03:05 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> 
> Mike:
> 
> I am strongly opposed to an approach that would require the server to 
> maintain state.  Unless other people are willing to speak up and support 
> such an approach, I am not willing to make changes in this area.  In my 
> view, the current consensus is for a stateless server.
> 

Russ, 

the server does not need to maintain a state. That had been
discussed between Steve farrele and me some yearsz ago, in
order to clarify the meaning of what Mike calls 'state token'.

A server which returns a 'state token' does not turn it into one
that MUST in a stateful mode. When the 'next request after token'
comes it, the server sets up it state from the data that had been 
return by the 'cookie'.