19 Feb
2020
19 Feb
'20
1:22 a.m.
Peace, On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:49 AM Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel@gmail.com> wrote:
May I naively ask if Google staff have considered scrapping using UDP and instead proposing a new, first-class transport protocol that OSes can implement on top of IP?
The IETF WG did, at some point. The opinion overall I think is that this would probably bring in even more troubles both to the protocol (e.g. in plenty of networks which do not allow any IP proto except 1, 6 and 17) and to networks (we have things like RFC 8086 for a reason). There might've been other reasons. -- Töma