Scott Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>On Apr 5, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
>> Members of the IETF added information on the to-be-standardized 
>> standard,
>> meaning that SIP with TLS over TCP will be mandatory. We need to start 
>> working
>> on TCP and TLS support.
>
>Could someone explain to me why anyone in their right mind would ever 
>want to run VoIP (or any lossy real-time data) over TCP?  Unless I'm 
>missing something, the effects of packet loss would be almost perfectly 
>pessimal.  Every time you lose a packet, the receiver stalls and then 
>can't catch up, so you get horrifically huge delays.  Does it actually 
>gain something for anyone doing voice or video?

It is only SIP that would be on TCP.  RTP (media stream) would still
be UDP.

Doug
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