[erlang-questions] SCTP support in Erlang/OTP

[Serge Aleynikov]

Hi,

I have a question for the OTP team.

We developed an extension of the inet driver used by the emulator to 
support an SCTP protocol.  This protocol is available in Linux kernel 
2.6.x and Solaris 10.  Our gen_sctp implementation has very similar API 
found in gen_tcp and gen_udp, and we've been using it in a number of 
internal products.

We would like to release these SCTP emulator patches to open source for 
potential inclusion in the OTP.  I would like to find out how to pursue 
this as I am sure many developers would benefit from having support of 
this protocol in Erlang that offers features like:

- Multi-homing
- Preservation of message boundaries
- Multi-streaming
- Reduced head-of-line blocking
- DoS prevention (four-way handshaking session setup)

However, we do have a small development team and would not be able to 
release and maintain this project for an open source community by 
providing support for a large developer base, as answering questions may 
destruct my team from working on internal projects.  We could, however, 
interface with a relatively small number of maintainers for 
troubleshooting needs.

So, I would like to ask the OTP team for advice on if there's interest 
in evaluating this work, and if there is what are the guidelines for 
including this project in the OTP.

Regards,

Serge

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Serge Aleynikov
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