- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:49:14 -0700
- To: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2007/07/24, at 6:59 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: >> >> BTW, do you know of any good (experiment-quality) evaluations >> of HTTP over SCTP? > > Saw some when I looked into this. But unfortunately I don't have > references.. The conclusions from what I can remember was that it > currently performs rather poorly in comparision to pipelined HTTP over > TCP, part due to the inability to batch fragments from different > messages in the same IP packet to utilize the MTU fully, part from > SCTP > implementations not performing as well as they could. But also that > SCTP > is fairly young and implementations likely to improve over time likely > making it perform noticeably better. > > I don't think there is any question that HTTP over SCTP has a great > potential in reducing the average perceived latency of viewing complex > pages. I've been wondering about this for a little while, and would very much like to see more work in this area. One of the interesting questions is how you'd layer HTTP-over-SCTP onto the existing Web; Upgrade doesn't quite meet the requirement (it's a whole new connection). Seems like one more piece of site-wide metadata to advertise... -- Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.com
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