[Asterisk-Users] Spring VON Wrap Up

[Scott Laird]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> Members of the IETF added information on the to-be-standardized 
> standard,
> meaning that SIP with TLS over TCP will be mandatory. We need to start 
> working
> on TCP and TLS support.

Could someone explain to me why anyone in their right mind would ever 
want to run VoIP (or any lossy real-time data) over TCP?  Unless I'm 
missing something, the effects of packet loss would be almost perfectly 
pessimal.  Every time you lose a packet, the receiver stalls and then 
can't catch up, so you get horrifically huge delays.  Does it actually 
gain something for anyone doing voice or video?


Scott