On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Karan, Cem F CIV (US) wrote: > I'd definitely support this; I've been wanting to experiment with SCTP > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol) as a > transport layer, but had no idea how to get it working with ROS.  Having > some well-supported interface in ROS to tie in new transports would make > that MUCH easier! +1 There is clearly widespread interest in a more modular transport layer. I suspect the tricky part will be clarifying implicit client assumptions about bandwidth, reliability, quality of service, etc. --  joq