[Bloat] Two questions re high speed congestion management anddatagram protocols

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 07:56:28AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger via Bloat wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 23:41:59 -0400 (EDT)
> "David P. Reed" <dpreed at deepplum.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for top posting, but ... Bigger question:
> > Why would DCCP be deprecated by Linux kernel?
> > Who makes that decision? Who argues against it?
> 
> No one uses it, and unused protocols are targeted by hackers.
> And there are few tests and no maintainer.

Perhaps the telephony (3GPP) people use it, there even seems
to be some work on extending DCCP with multi-path capabilities:
<https://multipath-dccp.org/>.  [That's all I know about this.]

Thanks,
Erik
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