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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. Kudos to submitter by Johnny+Doughnuts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Kudos for using coral.

  2. Re:Link doesn't use port 80 by Malc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why not wait until you get home this evening? Is it really so critical to your work tasks today that you can't wait? Presumably if it were then you could make a good business case to your IT/MIS department.

  3. Re:nonsense by ebuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, then it might be a troll, or it might be a rational statement. The best trolls are, of course, both.

    But flamebait would be something more along the lines of TCP/IP only being the choice of backward retards who can't figure out that there's been better solutions around since the mid 90's, and if they'd only get off their fat asses and RTFM, then they'd get a clue and be able to download streaming video of hot one-on-one grit action starring Natalie Portman.

    Gosh, that was easier than I thought...