On 10/20/2010 7:27 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
"because of NATs" s/b "because certain parties refused to acknowledge that encapsulation of SCTP in UDP would have operational advantages sufficient to outweigh the disadvantages".* Stream Control Transport Protocol, first spec'd in 2000 (couldn't be deployed widely in IPv4 because of NATs)
SCTP only gets you 90% of the way there, but it is a lot closer than today's TCP is.
Matthew Kaufman