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lttlrck on April 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)

SCTP can run over UDP. It's part of the spec.

Now we have HTTP3 which runs over UDP - where there is a will, there is a way.

Perhaps SCTP was ahead of its time.

throw0101c on April 20, 2024 [–]

> SCTP can run over UDP. It's part of the spec.

SCTP over UDP came out in 2013:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6951

SCTP came out in 2000:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2960

Over a decade is quite a while in Internet-time.

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