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Re: SCTP? YES!
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Re: SCTP? YES!


  • Subject: Re: SCTP? YES!
  • From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 14:16:34 -0700


On 29 May '08, at 11:57 PM, Andreas Fink wrote:

1st. companies producing devices have heard of SCTP. Its just that they take time to implement it and of course your customers have to do flash upgrades and the like.

I don't think you grasped what my situation is — I cannot tell potential users "oh, the app doesn't work because your router is teh lame. You have to replace it with a more expensive one." For one thing, the tech support overhead (i.e. emails I'd have to answer) would be outrageous. For another, most people would just shrug and delete the app.


NAT vendors won't add support for SCTP if there's no app's out there asking for it.

That is most likely a fatal barrier to wide adoption of the protocol, unfortunately. I can think of few mass-market apps that could coerce their users into upgrading their network hardware to run them — it would have to be something like Office. Or World Of Warcraft :)


The same argument goes for IPv6, unfortunately, although in that situation the shortage of IPv4 addresses does create some sort of incentive for ISPs to adopt it. (But mostly they just seem to be installing more NATs instead.)

—Jens

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