Re: [multipathtcp] Draft Multipath TCP (MPTCP) BOF description

Salvatore Loreto <salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com> Sat, 09 May 2009 16:37 UTC

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From: Salvatore Loreto <salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com>
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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] Draft Multipath TCP (MPTCP) BOF description
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Preethi Natarajan wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 1:09 PM
>> To: Preethi Natarajan
>> Cc: 'Arnaud Ongenae'; multipathtcp@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] Draft Multipath TCP (MPTCP) BOF 
>> description
>>
>> Suppose that a browser wants to load pages from a website. 
>> How does the browser know if the server also supports SCTP? 
>> For IPv4 vs IPv6 we could solve this using the DNS, but for 
>> TCP vs SCTP this is harder.
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> DNS has been proposed to identify transport protocols in the past, for ex.
> see RFC 3263. From what I hear, SRV records have worked quite well for SIP.
>   
actually there is already an interesting proposal, take a look at those 
drafts:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wood-tae-specifying-uri-transports-05.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jennings-http-srv-05.txt

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