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| RMIF Terminology RDP (Reliable Data Protocol) This is RMIF-specific protocol on top of UDP which implements retries and "guarantees" delivery. RDP is used for control messages while "plain" UDP is used for `PLOT` data. TCP is not suitable for "slow, high latency, unreliable" links due to high overhead in dealing with a network interruption. New protocols, like SCTP, are being investigated for use in place of RDP. Remote A "remote" is often used to refer to a host/port combination and is represented as the string `"<host>:<port>"`. RMIF assumes that a given `"<host>:<port>"` combination can uniquely identifies a connection. Channel A logical stream of data. A channel can be messages or pipes. Each Remote can have many channels.