GCN-XML and Dakota

[Alasdair Allan]

>> -- Each uses the uncommon idea that the receiver of the message initiates the connection (usually the sender connects).
> 
> Regardless of whether we regard that as "uncommon" or not, I'm not actually sure that it's correct.
> 
> What you describe is certainly true or the vTCP protocol. However, my understanding is that the GCN system is the reverse. To quote (from the comments in xml_sock_demo.c):

This was certainly true of the 40-byte packet system. I haven't looked at the XML system...

Al.