[103579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Train wreck (was "Does TCP Need an Overhaul?")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Apr 7 13:12:58 2008
Cc: Lucy Lynch <llynch@civil-tongue.net>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <A4C6C4D8-40F6-4B0C-BDAB-B5276084BF0C@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:47:44 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7 apr 2008, at 18:18, Fred Baker wrote:
> (4) When it is pointed out that instead of complaining about TCP in
> cases where it is the wrong protocol it may be more useful to use
> the transport designed for the purpose, researchers who presumably
> are expert on matters in the transport layer respond in complete
> surprise.
There is of course the issue of migrating from one transport to
another with NATs and firewalls thrown in for good measure, which is
worse than migrating to IPv6 in some ways and only significantly
better in one (no need to upgrade routers).
