> Peter Deutsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Actually, I'm surprised nobody's yet raised the issue of fragmenting
the
> > payload in transit and the effect this will have on traffic throughput.
> > As modeled so far, this seems to be an interesting case where if you
> > reduce the size of the payload you actually decrease throughput, since
> > the ship will ride higher in the water, at high *or* low tide.
>
> There is a very well established technique for fragmenting this type of
> traffic, and making it ride MUCH lower, although throughput still suffers
> significantly. Haven't you ever heard of Transport Oversize Rectifying
> Protocol Enhanced Depth Options?
>
> (DE-fragmenting the traffic is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Isn't there already some government board or agency already assigned to
defining this type of fragmentation/defragmentation?
>
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