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Replacing TCP?

Posted by michael on from the step-by-step-the-largest-network-can-be-replaced dept.

olau writes "TCP, the transfer protocol that most of the Internet is using, is getting old. These guys have invented an alternative that combines UDP with rateless erasure codes, which means that packets do not have to be resent. Cool stuff! It also has applications for peer-to-peer networks (e.g. for something like BitTorrent). They are even preparing RFCs! The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkov, is of Kademlia fame."

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  1. Re:Kudos to submitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah. Really great. Now I have to do the URL's manually because our firewall blocks 8090. Kudos to the submitter for being an egocentric moron. How about putting both links instead?

  2. Re:A working wikipedia link for Kademlia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Most companies don't just leave every outgoing port open and they surely are not going to open a port for us to read an article. Coral is a nice idea with a flawed implementation.

    I wouldn't call your company being an asshat a flaw in Coral's implementation.