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So far no mention of SCTP which would have been fine if people switched to IPv6 (which more and more are every day). Instead we have this monster of a protocol
by chaz6 7y ago
So far no mention of SCTP which would have been fine if people switched to IPv6 (which more and more are every day). Instead we have this monster of a protocol emulating it over UDP.
- alex_duf 7y agoWouldn't SCTP suffer from the ossification of middle boxes?
- topranks 7y agoYes absolutely. Some of the people involved in the early QUIC development in Google had been heavily involved in the SCTP work and blamed its lack of success on the difficulty in getting firewalls, middleboxes (and the teams that manage them) to accept a new IP protocol. So they wrapped QUIC in UDP.
- lttlrck 7y agoSCTP can run over UDP. WebRTC does it.
- detaro 7y agoSCTP support in routers, firewalls, ... is just too bad, IPv6 has nothing to do with that.