Replacing TCP? 444
olau writes "TCP, the transfer protocol that most of the Internet is using, is getting old. These guys have invented an alternative that combines UDP with rateless erasure codes, which means that packets do not have to be resent. Cool stuff! It also has applications for peer-to-peer networks (e.g. for something like BitTorrent). They are even preparing RFCs! The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkov, is of Kademlia fame."
Evil Bit? (Score:5, Funny)
This has nothing to do with Portugal (Score:0, Funny)
Link is dead (Score:1, Funny)
I guess the new protocol still has some time left in development.
Not ready for slashdotting yet.
Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
Often stories are posted that refer to products or code names, with no description, which is quite annoying.
I'm glad to see this post doesn't run that risk.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
-d
Ugh -- eyes are playing tricks on me. (Score:5, Funny)
The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkov, is of Kademlia fame."
The guy who started it, Petar Maymounkov, is of Chlamydia fame."
I was about to wonder what sort of "fame" you could get from that. Need coffee. Need sleep.
IronChefMorimoto
Respect! (Score:5, Funny)
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCP
Oh socket to me, socket to me,
socket to me, socket to me...
ANY loss level?? (Score:5, Funny)
For once (Score:1, Funny)
Oh wait...nervermind, if we did that everything would work and we'd no longer be needed.
Re:Ugh -- eyes are playing tricks on me. (Score:1, Funny)
Now that I've use some random phrase in the blurb as an excuse to coin my joke, can I get my mod point please?
Getting Old? (Score:4, Funny)
Really, is TCP flawed?
I have a better protocol (Score:5, Funny)
How does it work? Well, it's layered over Rateless Internet, in which (as we all know) packets do not have to be resent. So it carefully loses all packets and relies on Rateless Internet to make sure they arrive safely at the other side and do not have to be resent. Because no packets need to make it from A to B, you don't need any network hardware, and data can be sent just as fast as your machine can drop packets.
Guess I'd better apply for a patent...
Re:Not gonna work if encumbered (Score:3, Funny)
Re:ANY loss level?? (Score:3, Funny)
Story is out of date. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
Duuude, you can't compare TCP to IP, they're different units! You have to divide them (TCP/IP)!
Re:Respect! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it an open protocol? (Score:5, Funny)
No point really not releasing it under a BSD licence in the first place, save leting the BSD guys write a far better version for the world to use.
The RFC is more important than the code anyway, and there fools for not writing the RFC first.
Re:ANY loss level?? (Score:2, Funny)
They only claim to be able to "send at speeds"... I guess 0bps is a speed :-)