[e2e] overlay over TCP

Lynne Jolitz lynne at telemuse.net
Wed Jan 19 16:06:50 PST 2005


A few questions...
> > DCCP will have just about the same deployment difficulties that 
> any other
> > new transport protocol has to jump through....
> 
> Even worse for DCCP .. since its further behind SCTP.. and time
> makes a difference.. let me tell you :-D

Why? What's the rush?

> There is hope.. eventually SCTP will be in all the firewalls and NAT's
> and then sometime down the road from that you will find DCCP in
> the boxes too... but in either case it will be some time yet for
> SCTP and DCCP has not even gotten that far yet...

Why would either be incoporated into firewalls and NATs? Is there a commitment from Cisco or some other big company to back them? What's the killer application that makes them pour out money to upgrade their firmware and go with either of these? 

Takes a lot to motivate sales these days, according to the biz guys. Think they read RFCs and get all excited, saying "Hey, that's our next big product"? :-)

Lynne.

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