Re: [multipathtcp] Increasing usage of MPTCP [was: Consensus call...]

[Olivier Bonaventure <[e-mail]>]

Juliusz,

>> Use case with this proxy work may increase the usage of the MPTCP, since
>> most of the existing servers do not have MPTCP capability.
>
> It may also have the opposite effect -- to lock up MPTCP in the ghetto of
> proxy-to-proxy protocols, and destroy the (positive) perception of MPTCP
> as a suitable end-to-end protocol.

I disagree. Having MPTCP proxies provides incentives to deploy MPTCP on 
endhosts. This is clearly what we observe today with the wide deployment 
of MPTCP on Android smartphones in Korea. Without proxies (in this case 
SOCKS proxies, but they have drawbacks as discussed earlier) nobody 
would have considered this deployment.

> (IMHO, upstreaming MPTCP into the Linux kernel would do more for MPTCP
> deployment than anything that the IETF may do, but I guess that's somewhat
> off-topic for this discussion.)

I agree but there are already two major smartphone vendors that use the 
open-source Linux MPTCP code and have included in the Linux kernel 
version that they ship to their customers. This is an indication of the 
maturity of the solution and the benefits that users can obtain with 
MPTCP today.


Olivier