Technical Summary
This document describes the state machines for the General Internet
Signaling Transport (GIST). The states of GIST nodes for a given flow
and their transitions are presented in order to illustrate how GIST
may be implemented.
Working Group Summary
The document is a product of the NSIS working group. The WG has
reviewed
the document thoroughly, and it has helped a number of implementations,
and in general people to understand how GIST works.
Document Quality
There exists about half a dozen implementations of GIST, and many of
them have benefited from the state machine specification.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Jukka Manner jukka.manner@tkk.fi). Lars
Eggert (lars.eggert@nokia.com) reviewed this document for the IESG.
Jukka Manner.