Replacing TCP?

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Posted by michael on Thursday October 21, 2004 @03:36AM 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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fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-21 03:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

yay
OMG!1 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-21 03:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Frost pist.
Kudos to submitter by Johnny+Doughnuts · 2004-10-21 03:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Kudos for using coral.
This won't happen by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-21 03:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

unless it happens.
Re:Link doesn't use port 80 by Malc · 2004-10-21 04:25 · 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.
Re:nonsense by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-21 05:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I don't have mod points, but if I did, I would have marked it flamebait also. It presents an opinion, true. But that opinion is expressed in a way which invites "NO! YOU ARE INSANE!" type posts, without providing much interesting or insightful material. Hence it is flamebait.
Re:nonsense by ebuck · 2004-10-21 05:47 · 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...