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> TCP without congestion control isn't particularly useful.

Thats why it has a congestion control mechanism, its just opinionated.

> until packets are dropped, leading to undesirable buffer bloat issues.

because people have bigger buffers than needed, which means saw tooth throughput.

> TCP wasn't designed for hardware offload,

neither is quic.

> TCP's three-way handshake is costly for one-shot RPCs,

Agreed

> A connection breaks when your IP address changes, and there is no easy way to migrate it.

Also agreed, but then TCP wasn't designed for this.

> TCP is poorly suited for optical/WDM networks,

I don't think thats the case. Loads of 10gig networks are optical, and 40 gig fibre used to be DWDM (ie 4 10 gig channels in one fibre, 100gig might be the same, I've not checked) [Again, this depends on the connection type and SPF pluggy thing. It could be twinax.]

Thats what what RDMA over Converged Ethernet is for, because supposedly its cheaper than inifinband.



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