[e2e] overlay over TCP

Michael Welzl michael.welzl at uibk.ac.at
Thu Jan 20 05:34:50 PST 2005


> Mathematical speaking , if you go from a protocol which can be described in
> 10 pages to a protocol(UDP) that must be described on around 100
> pages(DCCP), that is a pretty big jump in complexity, 
> Then any application that want to use it, should at least expect to see some
> advantages from it....

I think you're mixing arguments here. Internal protocol
complexity is not the main incentive / deployment problem.

e.g., TCP is a complex beast, but using it is not such
a big deal. When we talk about incentives to use a protocol,
we should talk about complexity that reveals itself towards
its users, i.e. API features that are seen by upper layers.

Cheers,
Michael



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