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> In my experience, the biggest issue with TCP is that it assumes that the traffic is a single continuous byte stream, whereas the majority of applications send
by throw0101b 3y ago
> In my experience, the biggest issue with TCP is that it assumes that the traffic is a single continuous byte stream, whereas the majority of applications send messages.
TCP and IP used to be one thing, and they split off TCP in what we now call Layer 4 (where UDP, and others, also exist). So they did think ahead in separating things to a certain extent.
The fact that we have a whole bunch of middle-boxes that don't allow DCCP, SCTP, etc, is hardly the fault of Cerf et al.