Well, the key would be to develop and deploy Homa in a DC and test in implementation at scale. If it actually ameliorates the perceived shortcomings of TCP that make nothing in TCP worth keeping as this author says, then cool. My only complain with issues like this is the cost of implementation. Someone has to pay to build a DC around it or increase the cost of maintenance for several years to a decade while supporting two completely different and incompatible networks.
Homa protocl can be deployed on the basis of existing switches (not all of them, but some of them will play well). See also https://github.com/PlatformLab/HomaModule .
In addition, a closed environment and the SDN's popularity in large data centers is a significant cost-reducing factors compared to typical IPv6 deployment.
Dumb question, there's no way to talk to a PC over the Internet with Homa, right? Since our home ISPs + routers are all only doing UDP/TCP over IPv4/IPv6? Homa is mainly for "LAN"?
