On 20/09/2023 11:13, Dave Taht via Starlink wrote:
As vs Geoffs presentation on QUIC eating the universe in terms of
traffic volume, and the world becoming a giant content distribution
network, I still hold, that the internet is a communications network,
and that despite content moving ever closer to the edges, more private
content, and connecting people to people, and vpns to corporations,
will remain an important use case. Ssh as one example, still holds the
underpinnings of the network together, and is very low traffic volume,
and there is no such thing as a "voip caching server". Also, big
providers of replicated content, such as steam, are experimenting with
bittorrent-like techniques again. QUIC makes torrent extremely feasible
once again.
Despite my high level of respect for Geoff, he, and others like him,
often talk things up to push things their way of thinking, we only need
look at the FUD they came out with in mid 90's about IPv4's imminent
demise giving it three to five years before depletion, and here we are
30 years later and it is still the most dominant transport protocol by a
long long mile despite allegedly running out only a few years ago and
not in early 2000's as they tried to claim. (Even today there are still
reserve stocks on /24's for newbies from some regions, and the bigger
networks have years of stockpiled addresses in reserve).
It's also like the local water board here who last week came out saying
a whopping 70% of people surveyed said they'd drink recycled water, of
course it was the local water board that conducted this alleged survey,
because >90% of the more independent polling shows a totally different
story.
"Ohh, everybody's doing it" "must be safe" "we should do it" ...
nah... TCP isn't going anywhere, nor is UDP, not in my lifetime anyway
:)
Cheers
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