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I'd like to see increased adoption of SCTP to get multiplexing benefits for all protocols including HTTP.
by donpdonp 13y ago
I'd like to see increased adoption of SCTP to get multiplexing benefits for all protocols including HTTP.
- _delirium 13y agoGoogle mentions SCTP briefly here, along with some other alternatives: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper Their main reason for going with SPDY seems to be that rolling out an application-level protocol is easier, while rolling out a transport-level protocol would require changing routers and such. That is almost certainly true. Fixing the multiplexing problem in an HTTP-specific way rather than generally does seem like an unfortunate hack, but it's probably the pragmatic approach.
- Aloisius 13y agoDoesn't SCTP run over IP as a layer 4 (transport layer) protocol? Why would you need to change routers (mostly layer 3)?