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Subject: Re: [boost] [asio] RFC on new reliable UDP library
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-11 08:28:21


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Niall Douglas
<s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 11 Sep 2014 at 15:10, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>
>> > Hence the choice of UDT over SCTP as the second wire
>> > format we are likely to implement.
>>
>> UDT over SCTP looks like a duplicate work since the functionality of
>> these protocols largely overlap (as far as I can see from Wikipedia).
>> Basically, that's why SCTP looks so appealing - it offers everything
>> UDT does and then some, and it is standardized.
>
> I think you thought I said we intend to implement UDT atop of SCTP.
> SCTP isn't useful to us due to the lack of home networking equipment
> support, we won't be implementing that.

Oh, sorry, I misread your previous reply.


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