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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."

4 of 444 comments (clear)

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

    Does it have Evil Bit implemented?

  2. 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.

  3. 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...