Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Maybe what we needed all along was a better TCP that allowed data to > be sent on the first packet. > > That is what people keep seeming to re-invent. > > Another of those cases where people keep telling me that there are > good reasons not to do that but don't ever get round to explaining > what they are. http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1292.html But I thought TCP fast open https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413 fixed the design errors in T/TCP, so is it still considered a bad idea? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/ Fair Isle: Cyclonic 5 or 6 at first in south, otherwise northerly 7 to severe gale 9, decreasing 6 later. Rough in southeast, otherwise very rough or high. Rain or showers. Good, occasionally poor.