What's PRIMITIVENAME?

[mirjak]

Section 10 of impl draft:
"Below, primitives in the style of "CATEGORY.[SUBCATEGORY].PRIMITIVENAME.PROTOCOL" (e.g., "CONNECT.SCTP") refer to the primitives with the same name in section 4 of [RFC8303]."

I know it's specified like this in RFC8303 but PRIMITIVENAME does not seem to be explained or used. Maybe I didn't look careful enough but to be honest I also didn't find the use of this nomenclature from RFC8303 very helpful...

[mwelzl]

Just to answer the comment of usefulness of this nomenclature: this allows back-tracking to the relevant spec., which (I believe) is valuable for people implementing a TAPS system. In the example of CONNECT.SCTP, RFC 8303 describes this as consisting of:

Pass 1 primitive/event: 'Initialize', followed by 'Enable/Disable
Interleaving' (optional), followed by 'Associate'

Initialize and Associate are obvious; naturally, they come from RFC 4960. Considering to use 'Enable/Disable Interleaving' (which is very important for a TAPS system - to implement priorities between streams) is perhaps less obvious, and the text points back at RFC 8260.