On Monday 03 September 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > More seriously -- the question is whether new services will cause > operator congestion problems that today's mechanisms don't handle. > It's also possible, per the note that some solutions will have operator > implications, such as new tuning knobs for routers and/or new funky new > DNS records to make it clear which hosts support TCP++. Beyond that, > there are likely implications for things like firewalls, ACLs, and > service measurements.
Is this not partially where SCTP fits in? Reading a few of the SCTP RFC's certainly indicates that SCTP has some interesting possibilities as far as congestion control is concerned. -- Lamar Owen Chief Information Officer Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
