Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill(_at_)hallambaker(_dot_)com> wrote:
Maybe what we needed all along was a better TCP that allowed data to
be sent on the first packet.
That is what people keep seeming to re-invent.
Another of those cases where people keep telling me that there are
good reasons not to do that but don't ever get round to explaining
what they are.
http://roland.grc.nasa.gov/tcp-impl/list/archive/1292.html
But I thought TCP fast open https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413
fixed the design errors in T/TCP, so is it still considered a bad idea?
Tony.
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