On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Preethi Natarajan <preethi....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks, > > We are trying to adapt HTTP to work over SCTP streams > (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-natarajan-http-over-sctp-01). Since this > proposal was received warmly at the httpbis WG, we are contemplating on a > more formal specification of HTTP over SCTP. > > The current HTTP over SCTP design exploits SCTP streams to avoid > head-of-line blocking. SCTP also offers other services unavailable in TCP > such as unordered delivery, partially reliable transmission, message based > transfer, multihoming support, more secure connection establishment with a > cookie mechanism and so on. We plan on adapting our design proposal to > leverage some/all of these SCTP services in the future. > > We implemented HTTP over SCTP streams in Apache and Firefox. Experiments > show significant improvements to end user performance in networks with high > latency and/or lossy paths. (I can point you to relevant material if you are > interested in knowing more.) > > We are interested in submitting our code changes to APR and httpd. We'd very > much appreciate guidance from httpd and APR developers on our mods and the > submission process.
Please post the patches, preferablly against trunk: <http://httpd.apache.org/dev/patches.html> Once we see the patches we will be in a much better position to give feedback, Thanks, Paul
