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A naive question: if multiplexing of SPDY is so important to load speed, why not promote SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) instead of TCP (Transmissio
by ttflee 13y ago
A naive question: if multiplexing of SPDY is so important to load speed, why not promote SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) instead of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)?
EDIT: It was reported that SPDY over SCTP was faster than SPDY over TCP.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012AprJun/0184.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012AprJun/...
- cbr 13y agoSo much existing infrastructure only supports TCP and UDP that a new protocol at that level is pretty much a non-starter. UDP is lightweight enough that you can put SCTP on top of UDP, but at that point you might as well make something optimized for that use case, which is why Google is working on QUIC.
- goaway 13y agoThis is exactly the case. It is an explicit goal of the SPDY and HTTP/2 projects to be something that can actually be deployed on the current internet.