Re: Google's QUIC

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 6/28/13 2:15 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> On 06/28/2013 02:07 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael Thomas" <mike () mtcc com>
> > > My first reaction to this was why not SCTP, but apparently they think
> > Simple Computer Telephony Protocol?  Did anyone ever actually 
> > implement that?
>
> No:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol
SCTP is used successfully for the purpose for which it was intended, 
which is connecting SS7 switches over IP. It's not as much a posterchild 
for an application agnostic transport as some people would like to think.
> *Mike*