Lars Eggert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2009-10-13, at 0:39, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>> RTMFP is a complete transport protocol that (while operating over UDP)
>> handles fragmentation issues, varying guarantees for delivery
>> reliability (none, partial, full) and ordering (in-order, as-received...
>> even supporting in-order delivery of partially-reliable data),
>> TCP-friendly congestion management with variable responses to congestion
>> and cross-peer congestion management (so if A is receiving high-priority
>> data from B then when C sends to A it backs off more strongly if loss is
>> detected), IP address mobility support, encryption (where the entire
>> session setup plus keying is several round-trips fewer than TCP+TLS),
>> etc. Too many features to list here, essentially.
>
> is there any sort of specification publicly available?
>
> Lars
Thanks to Lars following up on this last year, there is now more public 
information than ever before available about RTMFP in the form of a 
presentation I made earlier this week at the IETF meeting. For the 
interested, the slides are here:

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/10mar/slides/tsvarea-1.pdf

Matthew Kaufman
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