[e2e] Can we revive T/TCP ?

rick jones perfgeek at mac.com
Fri Mar 24 18:59:20 PST 2006


> (1) There are very few situations in which single-packet exchanges
>     are possible, so T/TCP is very seldom a significant performance
>     improvement.  But it does have significant complexity.

 From what (little) I've understood from some recent conversations in 
dns-operations, the DNS folks may be having some "interesting" 
interactions between spoofed source IP addresses on queries, lack of 
pervasive BCP38, and open DNS servers that might benefit from being 
able to use TCP as a transport more efficiently than it can be today.

rick jones
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