Am 23.06.2016 um 09:40 schrieb David Miller: > 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 No, the TCP stack in the android/iOS/Windows kernel is so out of date 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.
I see. So the plan is bringing TOU into almost every kernel out there and then ship Apps with their own TCP stacks since vendors are unable to deliver decent updates. I didn't realize that the situation is *that* worse. :( Thanks, //richard
