- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:42:10 +0000
- To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
- cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <CB48ADDE-FC3C-423A-ADE6-4C4E5796FF36@tzi.org>, Carsten Bormann writ es: >I'm old enough to remember when NFS mostly moved from UDP to TCP. >Are they moving back? Where/why not? The usage-model for NFS is that generally things are read/write, cannot fail and you move massive amounts of data around. The move from UDP to TCP more or less coincided with "massive" growing from below 64k to above 64k, where you'd have to start doing the hard work with UDP. The HTTP/UDP use-case is different, in that we are specifically talking about non-transactional small object retrival, but the 64k limit is of course the same thing. Once of the attractions of HTTP/UDP is that you can multicast and whichever server happens to have that icon will send it to you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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