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		marcosdumay on June 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC Why not make a second connection using another protocol (possibly TCP)? You also don't want to share the routing performance, congestion treatment, OS queue, and probably a lot of other stuff.

swiftcoder on June 25, 2024 [–]

NAT traversal, historically. Reliably punching one hole through the local NAT gateway is bad enough, adding a second protocol into the mix was asking for trouble.

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