On 7/4/24 18:45, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
Ok, well as long as applications are using TCP then stability of endpoint address bindings matters.TCP? I said transport.
TCP has a rather 1980s view of transport which we have moved beyond with QUIC. TCP does not comprehend the type of network level flexibility that I am talking about.
As far as the application layer is concerned, all that actually matters is the ability to establish a connection to a named endpoint and exchange one or more streams of data. Why should the application need to be aware of what is going on at the network layer? The function of the transport layer is to gloss over all that.
In my experience, people like to make blanket assertions about
what applications need. Usually they're rather naive about it,
because they're only thinking of things like HTTP and not the
broad spectrum of apps. Or, they don't think that any other kinds
of apps need to exist. I try to ignore, or circumvent, those
people.
Keith
