On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > On 11/17/2011 8:58 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> Please see the reader comment by Oor Nonny-Muss on this story to understand >> its relevance to the IETF. >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/salad_leaf_turns_out_to_be_dead_bird/ > > > The original IETF plenary presentation on the implementation and testing of > the avian carrier IP link did note that this mechanism was extremely good at > testing the quality of and implementations TCP retransmission code. > > So this example of packet loss well might apply.
I suspect it was more like encryption. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
