I understand what this is doing, but my imagination is failing me. What are some use cases for this? It would allow TCP-over-USB, right? Anything else?
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It would allow TCP-over-USB, right?
What makes you say that?
A guess.
Based on what?
Based on the device-to-device, peer packet transmission description.
USB already has a data transfer protocol, in which one end is the controller or master, and the other the slave. The diagram and description made it look more like a peer-to-peer foundation for building other things.
So, my guess was direct device-to-device networking over USB, and... other stuff. Hence, my comment was a guess about what it could be used for, and a question about what it could be used for, because (as I said) its purpose was not clear to me.