netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] tou: Transports over UDP

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:15:04 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] tou: Transports over UDP - part I

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com> wrote:
> Transports over UDP is intended to encapsulate TCP and other transport
> protocols directly and securely in UDP.
>
> The goal of this work is twofold:
>
> 1) Allow applications to run their own transport layer stack (i.e.from
>    userspace). This eliminates dependencies on the OS (e.g. solves a
>    major dependency issue for Facebook on clients).

Facebook on clients would be a Facebook app on mobile devices?
Does that mean that the Facebook app is so advanced and complicated
that it needs a special TCP stack?!

-- 
Thanks,
//richard