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I'm afraid I don't understand this. SCTP is a transaction-level protocol, whilst SPDY works at the application layer, does it not? These choices are orthogonal,

by sipior 15y ago

I'm afraid I don't understand this. SCTP is a transaction-level protocol, whilst SPDY works at the application layer, does it not? These choices are orthogonal, not mutually-exclusive, as near as I can tell.

wmf 15y ago
HTTP over SCTP would bring many of the same advantages as HTTP over SPDY over TCP.
- sipior 15y ago
  Right, that was the part I did understand :-) What I didn't get was why the parent comment was disappointed that Google didn't choose SCTP over SPDY, since no either-or choice is required here. Couldn't SPDY be run over SCTP as well (leaving aside the problems with SCTP that you brought up in your previous comment), albeit with some redundant functionality?
  - wmf 15y ago
    If SPDY were designed to run (only) over SCTP, presumably the redundant functionality wouldn't have been designed in the first place, saving Google's time and yielding a more elegant protocol. At least that's my interpretation.
    - jacques_chester 15y ago
      Network protocols are fractal. Similar but not-quite-identical problems appear at each layer of the stack and wind up being solved in not-quite-identical ways.