The MPLS WG Archive

[Chip Sharp <chsharp@cisco.com>]

It might be interesting some time in the future to investigate it, but 
right now I don't know of a compelling reason to do it.

FWIW, SCTP (the spec) will support the same port numbers as TCP for 
LDP.  You can theoretically run SCTP over IPSEC for security although you'd 
have to think carefully about the multihoming issues and it hasn't been 
beaten on.  There is a reliable, unordered mode of operation and it does 
support multiple independent data streams in a single session.

SCTP is just now going through its first bakeoff.  Give it a year and see 
how it works out.  There is no need to rush it.

Of course, if you come up with a huge advantage for using SCTP let me know.
:-)

Chip
SCTP co-editor

At 12:02 PM 6/9/00 -0400, Punj, Arun wrote:
>Hi,
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>Any reason why LDP can't use SCTP ( sigtran ) instead of TCP ?
>It doesnot seem to utilize byte stream feature of TCP anyway,
>And would be far more light weight if it used SCTP.
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>-TL
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