Re: Not UDP? Re: Proposed HTML ping attribute

Hi Tim,

On 1/15/08, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
> Presumably it has been discussed why UDP should not be used?
> It would seem to have the right characteristics.
> It would have less load on the net, by many times.
> And dramatically reduce time, buffer space etc for all parties.
> And it could be filtered out as a luxury on links under abnormal stress.
> Anyone got a pointer to the reasons? why not?

UDP is a possible transport, sure, but it alone doesn't address the
problem because it prescribes no application semantics. i.e. you can
have datagram based messages with either GET or POST semantics.

Mark.
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Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2008 04:09:21 UTC