Erasure Codes for Reliability In the reliability section there is this sentence If an application requires a high degree of reliability a protocol such as the Transmission Control Protocol or erasure codes may be used instead If I m reading that section correctly I think they are referring to missing packets not packets with corrupted data Erasure codes seem to handle corrupted data and not missing packets I think that sentence should read If an application requires a high degree of reliability a protocol such as the Transmission Control Protocol may be used instead