From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinber...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:15:04 +0200
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> wrote: >> Transports over UDP is intended to encapsulate TCP and other transport >> protocols directly and securely in UDP. >> >> The goal of this work is twofold: >> >> 1) Allow applications to run their own transport layer stack (i.e.from >> userspace). This eliminates dependencies on the OS (e.g. solves a >> major dependency issue for Facebook on clients). > > Facebook on clients would be a Facebook app on mobile devices? > Does that mean that the Facebook app is so advanced and complicated > that it needs a special TCP stack?! No, the TCP stack in the android/iOS/Windows kernel is so out of date that in order to get even moderately recent TCP features it is necessary to do this. That's the point.
