Re: XTP: A better TCP than TCP

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:38:59 +0100


>I was just reviewing http://www.mentat.com/xtp/xtp.html and
>http://www.ca.sandia.gov/xtp/. XTP looks like a very interesting protocol.

I did some work with XTP a few years back. It's interesting but it's a very
heavyweight protocol compared to TCP. It tries to be all things to all men
and it's debatable whether it really succeeds.

It would certainly be worth having in the kernel, however.

p.

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