- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:09:16 -0500
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
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. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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