That paper in particular, and the reasons UDP connections are more reliably formed than TCP, have been discussed numerous times in MMUSIC, and I really don't think we should be repeating the whole conversation here. But the summary is that it's not nearly as universal a solution as indicated in that paper.
Bruce On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Salman Abdul Baset <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:32:44 -0400 (EDT), >> Salman Abdul Baset wrote: >>> >>> The reliability and congestion control discussion for RELOAD revolves >>> around the notion that direct connection establishment using TCP is >>> orders >>> of magnitude worse than UDP. >> >> No, it does not. If UDP was 99% and TCP was 50% (<< 1 order), >> then this would pretty clearly require UDP support. > > Sure. This is why it is helpful to have data indicating the problem. The > paper I cited indicates that direct TCP connection can be established for 88 > percent of deployed NATs and 100% for common NAT types. > > -s > _______________________________________________ > P2PSIP mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip > _______________________________________________ P2PSIP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/p2psip
