Re: UDP or TCP?

>is that most web traffic by volume has different, sometimes weaker 
>requirements than those provided by TCP. This can be used to give 
>improved performance *AND* improved congestion characteristics. 

Makes sense to me.

I'd like to know why congestion control can only be done on a TCP-connection
basis and not a host-basis?  Seems to me you just need a few new ICMP
pdu's.

>	Using something other than TCP for basic HTTP operation on HTML 
>files, or other similar object types is almost always a lose (unless you 
>reimplement TCP from scratch).

That's pretty strong.  What's your basis for this claim?
	/r$

Received on Thursday, 10 August 1995 20:02:04 UTC