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Why not a store-and-forward architecture?

You still need a protocol for point to point and maybe that's where QUIC plays a role, but wouldn't make more sense to use something like email?

The distances and latencies are so large, that you want to send a file to the next hop in the network, and from there to the next one, and so on.



This is the actual standardized approach with the dtn protocol:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4838

It makes no sense to use a protocol where the source is the one responsible for taking care of retransmission when the network spans accross minutes/hours of delay.


That is the underlying consensus currently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking



I found it baffling the extent to which the article and the stuff it linked to did not discuss the current state of the art.


I think the idea is to store-and-forward IP packets, then use QUIC on top of that




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