Stewart Stremler wrote:
-Stewart "{TCP/UDP}/IP is not a *clean* system -- it just works" Stremler
I disagree. TCP/IP is really pretty close to both minimal and clean
given the problem it is solving (reliable transport across unreliable
links). Anyone who starts out designing a protocol which is "simpler"
than TCP eventually realizes that they wound up designing 90% of
TCP--generally badly.
The fact that TCPv6 (which had pretty much a blank slate) does not throw
out much of the fundamental architecture of TCPv4 shows that TCPv4 made
pretty much the right decisions.
-a
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