Re: Why does the SCTP submenu appeat twice?

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen () lurchi franken de>]

> On 12 Jun 2016, at 07:11, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl> wrote:
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> > Well, it's surprising it was added (again) the analyze.
> >
> > Historically all items in Telephony were in Analyze, which became too long to be
> > practical. Therefore all Telephony related items were grouped in their own menu.
> > This included SCTP.
>
> So is SCTP a telephony protocol, or is it a protocol intended for general use that's currently primarily used for 
> telephony?
>
> If the former, I'd put it under Telephony.
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> If the latter, however, I'd put it under Analyze.
>
> The latter.  It was initially developed in the SIGTRAN working group but then moved over to the transport working 
> group (I believe that happened when it was realized that it really was a general-purpose protocol).
It is nowadays also used in WebRTC for data channels...

Best regards
Michael
> I'd /guess/ it's still in the Telephony menu for people expecting to find it there.
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