Subject: [Tsvwg] RDDP and SCTP

From: "Williams, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:57:25 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caitlin Bestler [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:21 PM
> To: Williams, Jim
> Cc: [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'
> Subject: RE: [rddp] "DO IT RIGHT", or "DON'T DO IT AT ALL"

> > To assume that RDDP will see
> > wide spread deployment before SCTP strikes me as a bit of
> > wishful thinking. 
>
> RDDP can be deployed more quickly than SCTP for the simple
> reason that it is *NOT* a transport protocol. It can be
> deployed on two hosts that have need for the service,
> without any support  from network administrators (other than
> enabling the application through the firewall, as must be
> done for any new application).

This misses the point.  Yes, the barriers to acceptance
and deployment of RDDP are on the endpoints, not the network.
This doesn't make them any less real, in fact quite the 
contrary.  

It's pretty hard to argue with the starry eyed proponents
of a brand new technology who think it's about to revolutionize
the industry.  In fact, like many others, I've been there
myself.  All I can do is appeal to the more sane and sober
participants to look at this in a realistic light.
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