The MCS protocol supports the services defined in ITU-T recommendation T.122. Information is transferred to and from the MCS. Basically, it provides a reliable transport service along the lines of RMP [#!rmp!#] or other simulations of multiple simultaneous TCP[#!van:88!#] type connections from a single source to multiple sinks.
Services assumed from the ``conventional unicast'' transport layer: The standard states that ``the MCS protocol assumes the use of a subset of the connection-oriented transport service defined in CCITT Rec.X.214.''.
Jon CROWCROFT
1998-12-03