On Monday 03 September 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
More seriously -- the question is whether new services will cause operator congestion problems that today's mechanisms don't handle. It's also possible, per the note that some solutions will have operator implications, such as new tuning knobs for routers and/or new funky new DNS records to make it clear which hosts support TCP++. Beyond that, there are likely implications for things like firewalls, ACLs, and service measurements.
Is this not partially where SCTP fits in? Reading a few of the SCTP RFC's certainly indicates that SCTP has some interesting possibilities as far as congestion control is concerned. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu