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Google's plan to deliver HTTP over UDP

by flying_whale on 4/17/15, 6:25 PM with 2 comments

  • by deeviant on 4/17/15, 7:38 PM

    Why not just overhaul TCP?

    TCP was and is pretty great at what it aims to to do, but it certainly is getting a bit long in the teeth.

    For one thing, streams are not quite convenient, it'd be great is messages were a first class member of a new tcp.

    Then look at the congestion control issues that are well known in TCP.

    Is UDP just a better framework to build something from the ground up?