Re: [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

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On 10/13/10 10:20 PM, gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ok I am out. This is one more specification that alters the behaviour
of another specification. There is no point in all this complexity, it
does not have any practical advantage over implementing congestion
control directly on top of UDP, without the overhead of passing through
an extra protocol, extra processing rules, extra tuples.

I have to agree.

Folks, I see the whole point of UDP encap as allowing DCCP to work when all you have to work with are UDP packets. There are two situations when this is true:

1) When NAT's block you
2) When the OS only provides a UDP socket and not a raw socket

Both are at least equally important. The second may be *MORE* important since it describes environments like Windows, JVM/Dalvik, and iOS in the hands of the client--and you can't change that.

This is not just about NATs.

If you need a kernel change, your proposal is toast because it will never work on Windows, Android, and iPhones. And that accounts for ... what ... 99+% of all net connected devices?

-a


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