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This discussion just shows how change (even just profiling something) gets stalled. Lots of speculation, and then arguments about speculation. Meanwhile...

Bram Cohen is lucky because he has a platform, his own platform, that he can use uTP on and he doesn't need anyone's approval. It's working so far ("mature") and that's that. I just wish he'd have given some other protocols a try, a little benchmarking exercise that we could in turn replicate ourselves, so we could see how they compare. That said, I admire the irreverence. We need more of that.

As for these arguments, it's like when VJ "saved the internet", if it works, then we're done. Miller Time.

Instead here we have a looped version of "Less Filling, Tastes Great."

You want dropped packets? Use UDP.

Is that acceptable? Acceptable to who? All depends on what you're trying to do. What you're trying to do, not what someone else is trying to do.

Don't wait for approval. It may never come. You just get endless debate. If you got something that works, use it.