Linux SCTP and p2p applications

fishchip2

Linux SCTP and p2p applications

Just for fun to ask 3 questions :

1. Why not using SCTP to implement a Bittorrent client?

2. Why not using SCTP to do live streaming broadcast?

3. Why at present no applications based on SCTP (Windows, linux)?

See also :

But supporting SCTP has to start somewhere ? Why?

http://lwn.net/Articles/363696/

mfillpot

I think that SCTP is not implemented more because it requires work-arounds for it to be tunneled or translated into TCP or UDP. As a developer I would not go through the extra effort of tunneling or translations for a SCTP if I can already use TCP libraries that give similar and sufficient communications.

fishchip2

As I searched from google, i found the EU has done extensive research on SCTP. I think EU wants to build a p2p TV network on top of SCTP.

http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/inhalt/forschung/sctp_fb/sctp_links.html

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2002/19C3-495-sctp.html

http://www.sctp.be/sctplib/

http://www.myp2p.eu/