=> SIP-over-SCTP (instead of TCP & UDP) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sip-implementors-boun...@lists.cs.columbia.edu 
> [mailto:sip-implementors-boun...@lists.cs.columbia.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Attila Sipos
> Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2010 13:02
> To: M. Ranganathan; Alex Balashov
> Cc: sip-implementors@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [Sip-implementors] SIP Stacks - large UDP messages
> 
> >>Usually it is simpler to implement the following strategy:
> >>
> >> - If the message is below 64K, send the message using UDP.
> >> - If the UDP transaction times out, try TCP transport.
> 
> 
> Simple, yes.
> 
> But bad also.
> 
> Why do people want to use UDP for large messages?
> It's a great way to block things up.
> And on a lossy network the problems are exacerbated.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong but if you have a fragmented UDP 
> message and one of the fragments is lost, then the whole 
> message has to be re-transmitted.
> 
> Also, if there are 2 clients sending large UDP messages to 
> the same server aren't they likely to end up blocking eachother?
> 
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