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Title : Problem Statement: Why the IETF Needs Defined Transport Services
Author(s) : Toby Moncaster
Michael Welzl
David Ros
Filename : draft-moncaster-tsvwg-transport-services-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2013-10-18
Abstract:
The IETF has defined a wide range of transport protocols over the
past three decades. However, the majority of these have failed to
find traction within the Internet. This has left developers with
little choice but to use TCP and UDP for most applications. In many
cases the developer isn't interested in which transport protocol they
should use. Rather they are interested in the set of services that
the protocol provides to their application. TCP provides a very rich
set of transport services, but offers no flexibility over which
services can be used. By contrast, UDP provides a minimal set of
services.
As a consequence many developers have begun to write application-
level transport protocols that operate on top of UDP and offer them
some of the flexibility they are looking for. We believe that this
highlights a real problem: applications would like to be able to
specify the services they receive from the transport protocol, but
currently transport protocols are not defined in this fashion. There
is an additional problem relating to how to ensure new protocols are
able to be adopted within the Internet, but that is beyond the scope
of this problem statement.
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