- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:37:20 +1100
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
... and it would require an upgrade in the infrastructure where proxies and firewalls are used. On 16/01/2008, at 3:09 PM, Mark Baker wrote: > > 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 > -- Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.com
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