be written in terms of nanoseconds, clients and servers may understand that less accuracy or
precision may be expected.
jitter, congestion, or other such values should use another protocol (such as NTP) to determine
appropriate adjustments.
tasks as quickly as possible, without anticipating errors, which might be expected to occur from
local system performance or network speed. ACP allows for messages to be time-stamped,
giving enough information to clients to permit adjustment for these factors.
tagged field contains of a tag followed by data. The tag determines the form and meaning of its
associated data item.
made or which has been made by a client to a server. The client assigns half of the request
identifier when the request is made, and the server assigns the second half when responding. A
client or server may choose to use either or both halves of the request identifier when comparing
or testing its value. If no response is requested, then the client may not know the server’s half of
the identifier, and the server cannot rely on the client’s half to be unique among all clients.
identifier and ending just prior to the next request identifier.
segment. If any tagged fields appear before the first request identifier, then those tagged fields
apply to all requests in the message.