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There is this thing called Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) already, which does sort of what SPDY does, without breaking the OSI model. Ie multiple c
by Zash 15y ago
There is this thing called Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) already, which does sort of what SPDY does, without breaking the OSI model. Ie multiple concurrent streams over a single session.
Not sure how it interacts with SSL/TLS thou.
- asomiv 15y agoGood luck making SCTP work with the $50 routers that everybody has in their homes. While you're at it, will you convince the rest of the world to switch to IPv6 please?
- apaprocki 15y agoWhat has kept SCTP down is the fact that the NAT code would have to be modified to support SCTP connections because they can be multi-homed. That will never happen. So, ironically, once the majority of the world has transitioned to IPv6, SCTP should be theoretically usable to talk to anyone if you're both not behind NAT anymore.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoYeah, but the cheap consumer routers that do not let SCTP through the NAT do not generally let IPv6 through either.
- Zash 15y agoYeah, this is unfortunately in the same bucket as all the other awesome things we could do if NAT didn't exist :(
- Zash 15y agoGood luck getting everyone to switch from IE6.
- caf 15y agoSPDY is over port 443 because of network discrimination against unusual TCP port numbers - good luck using an entirely different IP protocol number!