{"id":5243,"date":"2008-12-02T19:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T03:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/note-about-udp\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T03:12:25","slug":"note-about-udp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/note-about-udp\/","title":{"rendered":"Note about UDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOne of the more amusing criticisms of my article on BitTorrent over UDP is that I&#8217;m a clueless dork for saying UDP was designed for real-time applications since there was no such thing as VoIP back in the day. This is generally accompanied by the charge that I don&#8217;t know the first thing about the Internet, etc. So for the record, here&#8217;s a statement of the design goals for UDP by one of the people involved, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.com\/blog-dpr\/?page_id=6\">lovable David Reed:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A group of us, interested in a mix of real-time telephony, local area networks, distributed operating systems, and communications security, argued for several years for a datagram based network, rather than a virtual circuit based network&#8230;[UDP] was a placeholder that enabled all the non-virtual-circuit protocols since then to be invented, including encapsulation, RTP, DNS, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6,  without having to negotiate for permission either to define a new protocol or to extend TCP by adding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153features\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any questions?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more amusing criticisms of my article on BitTorrent over UDP is that I&#8217;m a clueless dork for saying UDP was designed for real-time applications since there was no such thing as VoIP back in the day. This is generally accompanied by the charge that I don&#8217;t know the first thing about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/note-about-udp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Note about UDP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1mz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}