[zeromq-dev] Feedback on new PATCH socket

[Martin Sustrik]

On 05/09/2011 12:13 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Martin Sustrik<sustrik at 250bpm.com>  wrote:
>
>> I meant replacing MORE flag by LABEL flag. That would mean removing
>> multi-part capability from 0MQ API.
>
> Could you explain what "LABEL flag" means, and what problem you're
> addressing with this idea?

What I mean is separating the routing info from the user content. Think 
of how MPLS works.

So for example, REP socket semantics would be "strip all the labels from 
the request and add them to the reply". Note that it would mean that the 
need for stack delimiter frame to become obsolete.

Martin