Re: Adding SCTP support

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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
| On sön, 2008-06-01 at 10:43 -0400, Matt Benjamin wrote:
|> The most compelling reason to use SCTP for HTTP delivery would seem to
|> be the potential to improve throughput via SCTP multi-streaming.
|
| In TCP that is done by having multiple concurrent TCP connections, which
| is pretty close to the same.

Yes.

|
| The biggest mismatch for HTTP over SCTP is that there is no per-stream
| "ABORT" or "End-of-file" conditions in SCTP. While SCTP do provide
| message boundaries it's not trivial to utilize this to map to HTTP
| messages in the general case.
|

That is unfortunate. I wasn't aware of this.

|
| It's a pity SCTP got specified with these quite innocent limitations, as
| it somewhat limits it's applicability to HTTP.

Randall Stewart and students seem to be moving it in new directions (eg,
Concurrent Multipath Transfer), so maybe we'll get past it.

|
| Regards
| Henrik

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