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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 07:10:34 -0700
At 12:27 AM 8/19/98 -0500, Allen Ethridge wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>>The following are from the mid-60's. See:
>>http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/baran.list.html
>>(excerpt at bottom)
>>
>>http://www.rand.org/cgi-bin/Abstracts/ordi/getab.pl?525148-525676
>>
>>You may argue that these systems did not become the internet, but the
>>funders' are the same and their motivations didn't change.
>
>I haven't looked at your references, but...
>
>Redundancy and/or the ability to dynamically route around dead nodes are
>certainly critical to a highly reliable network. But such a network
>must also have the ability to intelligently shed the excess capacity
>generated when nodes are lost. This requires that packets carry
>different priorities.
So you have argued that a reliable transport should include
quality-of-service ---like ATM (orig. from the telco world) does, or like
various future flavors of IP might. The lack of QoS in IP is part of its
'ricketyness' for serious use.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59