[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Contribute RDS(ReliableDatagramSockets) to OpenIB

[Bob Woodruff]

Rick wrote,
>SCTP is connection based - we have many dependencies on our connectionless 
>datagram model.

I think I get it now. I was just talking with Roy about SCTP, 
and he said the same thing, SCTP is a connected rather than datagram model,
so SCTP does not seem to solve the problem since it 
has the same FD scaling problems as TCP.

>Of course for this to work - we will need RDS to be ubiquitous - supported 
>on all interconnects - to include simple Ethernet NICs.

Makes sense.  

woody