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by tptacek 254 days ago
UDP is playing exactly the role it was intended to play. Apart from saving 8 bytes of header and a checksum, what's the advantage to running the protocol directly on top of IP? How is this "ossification"? Again: this was David Reed's original design purpose for UDP! It was exactly for doing shit on top of IP without having to run through TCP's mechanism.
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Finally some sense in this thread.