- 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.