> SCTP supports the transportation of user messages that have no
> application-specified order, yet need guaranteed reliable delivery.
But most people don't really care (that insisting on re-delivering out of date packets will use some bandwidth,) they just have an existing UDP app they want to port to the web and converting it to SCTP is easy enough (I think I've even used an LD_PRELOAD to convert for that? But I may be confusing a different ULP substitution.)
Making them do that and set everything up is actually a good mechanism for protecting the rest of the internet and allowing a web SCTP that browsers could enable even by default, with less risk of in page ad hijackings, etc. Allowing UDP is something that I hope every browser leaves as impossible to allow without going into configuration or being in an entirely different use context of web APIs than a browser.
> SCTP supports the transportation of user messages that have no
> application-specified order, yet need guaranteed reliable delivery.
But most people don't really care (that insisting on re-delivering out of date packets will use some bandwidth,) they just have an existing UDP app they want to port to the web and converting it to SCTP is easy enough (I think I've even used an LD_PRELOAD to convert for that? But I may be confusing a different ULP substitution.)
Making them do that and set everything up is actually a good mechanism for protecting the rest of the internet and allowing a web SCTP that browsers could enable even by default, with less risk of in page ad hijackings, etc. Allowing UDP is something that I hope every browser leaves as impossible to allow without going into configuration or being in an entirely different use context of web APIs than a browser.