[Ekiga-devel-list] DCCP

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Hi,

DCCP is a new transport protocol, like TCP and UDP, RFC 4340.  For 
ekiga, as a streaming video application, it should be better from 
several points of view:
- it has congestion control, unlike UDP
- the packet retransmission is not mandatory, as TCP
- it has acks from receiver to sender
- two congestion controls are standard, TCP-like (like TCP :o)), and 
TFRC, which seems better for streaming, since it has a less sharp 
sending curve (reduced jitter) than TCP

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCCP for more info.

DCCP is in vanilla linux kernel since about 2 years.  Windows does not 
have it.

Do you think useful to port ekiga transfers to this protocol too?  In 
fact, several applications already support it, like development vlc and 
(development?) gstreamer.  It will probably be the first messenger with 
DCCP :o)  And it is not too difficult, I have worked on this, I have 
examples etc.

--
Eugen