Re:Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
by throw0101b on Monday May 08, 2023 @12:54PM
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> In my experience, the biggest issue with TCP is that it assumes that the traffic is a single continuous byte stream, whereas the majority of applications send messages.
TCP and IP used to be one thing, and they split off TCP in what we now call Layer 4 (where UDP, and others, also exist). So they did think ahead in separating things to a certain extent.
The fact that we have a whole bunch of middle-boxes that don't allow DCCP, SCTP, etc, is hardly the fault of Cerf et al.
TCP and IP used to be one thing, and they split off TCP in what we now call Layer 4 (where UDP, and others, also exist). So they did think ahead in separating things to a certain extent.
The fact that we have a whole bunch of middle-boxes that don't allow DCCP, SCTP, etc, is hardly the fault of Cerf et al.