Providing an implementation of a network protocol is hardly doing "real work in real situations". I mean, it ships the packets from here to there but so does e

Providing an implementation of a network protocol is hardly doing "real work in real situations". I mean, it ships the packets from here to there but so does every other implementation of every other protocol. The thing that is interesting or novel about this protocol as opposed to the thousands of other proposals is that it's supposed to be faster than the other proposals for a broad range of applications with a broad range of link topologies and across a broad range of software/hardware platforms. Of course, to establish that claim replication is completely critical.