Re:QUIC is now RFC 9000
by 10000truths on Friday May 28, 2021 @08:34AM
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NAT is a hack that only ever existed due to IP address exhaustion, and I’ve yet to find a good reason why congestion control and QoS handling in a router needs anything beyond what is already in the IP headers. SCTP’s flexibility is irrelevant since nobody uses it, arguably because of how much the Internet has ossified around TCP and UDP.
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Hey, that's not true. People use it... in the telecom industry and everyone using WebRTC's DataChannel (SCTP over DTLS actually).
The protocol is probably mostly fine, but there are no quality library for using it in a general purpose way. Because of that, no one can really use the protocol to its full designed capabilities anyway (and the ossified network nodes don't help either).