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> When you choose TCP or UDP, you are making some guarantees about how the connection is going to behave. Huh? With UDP, the thing missing is a guarantee about

> When you choose TCP or UDP, you are making some guarantees about how the connection is going to behave. Huh? With UDP, the thing missing is a guarantee about how the connection is going to behave (assuming you call it a "connection" in the first place). I'm just talking about interpolating between guarantees and no guarantees.

djrogers 10y ago
> With UDP, the thing missing is a guarantee Not so - with UDP I know that the endpoint won't discard packets that arrive out of order, and won't bother me with retrans requests for stale packets that didn't arrive... different priorities, different kinds of 'guarantees'