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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. Evil Bit? by Sexy+Commando · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have Evil Bit implemented?

  2. This has nothing to do with Portugal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    This has nothing to do with Portugal! It's useless!

  3. Link is dead by millwall · · Score: 1, Funny

    The link seems to be dead.

    I guess the new protocol still has some time left in development.

    Not ready for slashdotting yet.

  4. Whew! by PhotoGuy · · Score: 4, Funny
    "TCP, the transfer protocol that most of the Internet is using

    Often stories are posted that refer to products or code names, with no description, which is quite annoying.

    I'm glad to see this post doesn't run that risk.

    Thanks for clearing that up for me.

    -d

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  5. Ugh -- eyes are playing tricks on me. by IronChefMorimoto · · Score: 4, Funny

    While this sounds very interesting (have to re-take all those networking certification exams again, I guess), when I read this...

    The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkov, is of Kademlia fame." ...my eyes told my brain this...

    The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkov, is of Chlamydia fame."

    I was about to wonder what sort of "fame" you could get from that. Need coffee. Need sleep.

    IronChefMorimoto

    1. Re:Ugh -- eyes are playing tricks on me. by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey you know what? when I read The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkow, is of Kademlia fame, my eyes told my brain Drop your panties Sir Arthur, I cannot wait till lunchtime.

      Now that I've use some random phrase in the blurb as an excuse to coin my joke, can I get my mod point please?

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  6. Respect! by WormholeFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T
    Find out what it means to me
    R-E-S-P-E-C-T
    Take care, TCP

    Oh socket to me, socket to me,
    socket to me, socket to me...

    1. Re:Respect! by miles31337 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sung by Arethernet Franklin, no doubt.

  7. ANY loss level?? by D3 · · Score: 4, Funny
    "By using encoded, rather than plain, transmission we are able to send at speeds with any packet loss level."
    I want to know how they get data transmission at 100% loss!
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    1. Re:ANY loss level?? by merdaccia · · Score: 3, Funny

      They never said anybody received anything ...

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    2. Re:ANY loss level?? by psmears · · Score: 2, Funny

      They only claim to be able to "send at speeds"... I guess 0bps is a speed :-)

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  8. For once by neilb78 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't we just leave it alone.

    Oh wait...nervermind, if we did that everything would work and we'd no longer be needed.

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  9. Getting Old? by 89cents · · Score: 4, Funny
    The air that I breathe, the water that I drink, and the land that I walk upon is getting really old. Someone needs to replace it all.

    Really, is TCP flawed?

  10. I have a better protocol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've designed a new protocol that can send data from A to B losslessly at infinite speed without an actual connection between A and B.


    How does it work? Well, it's layered over Rateless Internet, in which (as we all know) packets do not have to be resent. So it carefully loses all packets and relies on Rateless Internet to make sure they arrive safely at the other side and do not have to be resent. Because no packets need to make it from A to B, you don't need any network hardware, and data can be sent just as fast as your machine can drop packets.


    Guess I'd better apply for a patent...

  11. Re:Not gonna work if encumbered by realdpk · · Score: 2, Funny

    No license in the world will make MySQL work "nicely".

  12. Story is out of date. by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 1, Funny

    They've already published RFCs and had them approved. The internet is switching to Rateless Internet two weeks from next Wednesday, on November 10th. After that, no more TCP/IP.

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  13. Re:nonsense by SavingPrivateNawak · · Score: 4, Funny

    TCP != IP...

    Duuude, you can't compare TCP to IP, they're different units! You have to divide them (TCP/IP)!

  14. Re:Is it an open protocol? by NoMercy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's quite bloody obvious what would happen, if the protocal takes off, the BSD folk need to implement a BSD version, the linux guys would then dump there version and use the BSD version because the BSD guys tend to write better code, and it would likely be more comptable, windows would then use the BSD version and MacOS X would have the BSD version by default.

    No point really not releasing it under a BSD licence in the first place, save leting the BSD guys write a far better version for the world to use.

    The RFC is more important than the code anyway, and there fools for not writing the RFC first.