[e2e] overlay over TCP

[David P. Reed]

Joe Touch wrote:

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> In that case, you're safer doing IP over HTTP (yes, there is such an 
> animal).
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Yup, that's a possibility.   But the problems I am interested in, which 
started this thread, are related to managing the underlying TCP (whether 
it's via HTTP or raw TCP) end-to-end control algorithms so that one can 
do things like manage congestion, latency, jitter, etc. as well as possible.

Of course since HTTP is often tinkered with along the way, using HTTP 
adds more dimensions to the problem space.