Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[Larry Dunn <>]

Scott,
cool- thanks for the update!

Larry
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On Nov 5, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Scott Brim wrote:

> For your possible entertainment, developments high up in the hourglass,
> on Day 1 of the IETF.  These have only a small near-term effect on
> Internet2's stakeholders, but may turn into something in the longer term ...
> 
> HTTP 2.0 is in full swing.  For transport they are starting from
> SPDY-over-UDP and tuning that as needed through the working group
> process.  They considered using SCTP but were "concerned about
> deployability".  (In any case, there are questions of how to make SPDY
> work with whatever lies underneath, e.g. SPDY itself will do out of
> order delivery but SPDY compression likes an in-order pipe from whatever
> is under it.)
> 
> In the meantime RTCWEB (HTTP-based realtime communications) has adopted
> SCTP-over-UDP as its transport.  That means SCTP/UDP will be in every
> browser, and that's going to infect every OS, step by step.  Someone
> from Firefox has already ported FreeBSD SCTP -- ported to what
> environment, I don't know, but that's the first step.
> 
> I don't know where all this is going to lead.  Ultimately it will affect
> what we can do and want to do.
> 
> And that's just day 1 :-).  Tomorrow I'll be at the SDN research group
> so I'll miss both TCP and HTTP but I'll get some reports.
> 
> Scott