TCP is one of the great works of the human mind, but its design assumes connected networks and most of today's networks are semi-connected. Original TCP is ext

TCP is one of the great works of the human mind, but its design assumes connected networks and most of today's networks are semi-connected. Original TCP is extremely poorly adapted to semi-connectedness. There have been a few tweaks over the years but what is needed is a fundamental alternative to TCP, conceived with the starting assumption that networks are semi-connected.