RE: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread Bernard Aboba
>As long as it is safe (i.e., follows good congestion control), >why should we care how many of these protocols are defined? After >we ensure the protocols are safe we can just let Darwinism take its >course. Because a customer with sufficient $ would inevitably request the Frobnitz Transport, s

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Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread Jun'an Gao
> My bottom line thoughts after having scanned thread is > have you looked at SCTP? We have just finished almost > 2 years of work and it solves some if not all of your > issues... Before I posted the long (and maybe annoying~_~) essays about ATP I've reviewed a few of the articles about the enhan

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread tytso
From: Mark Allman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 16:12:52 -0500 I am fairly unconvinced in the arguments made by Mr. Gao. However, maybe a TCPng is the wrong way to look at things. A better model, it seems to me, is the one followed by SCTP. In other words, let's

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
>> Critics of ICANN will likely request that the committee make ICANN >> reopen the selection process. ... Other critics include the ACLU and >> many of the unsuccessful TLD applicants, several of which might take >> ICANN to court. With any luck, ICANN will be replaced with somet

Re: john klensin evaluates ICANN

2001-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
> >choose-it-yourself DNS roots and structures (where no one had to > >worry about uniqueness of names and each structure made up its > >own rules for dealing with potential conflicts). > > Pot. Kettle. Black. Somebody is unclear on the concept of "metaphor" I think. I'm not aware of John attemp

RE: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread Bernard Aboba
>Is this really a problem? Yes. >How often would a single TCP session have allocated to itself an >entire gigabit link? Think server-less backup on a Storage Area Network. >I'm not aware of any end systems or apps that generate data at this rate ( >especially for any extended length of t

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread Randall R. Stewart
Jun'an: Now that I have scanned through most of this thread I am going to pick up on this and reply :-) I have been in a FreeBSD driver Hell so please forgive my tardy response :-0 My bottom line thoughts after having scanned thread is have you looked at SCTP? We have just finished almost 2 yea

Re: john klensin evaluates ICANN

2001-02-08 Thread Randy Bush
you have a new email address for me to add to the sociopath filter, eh? randy

Re: Network Edge definition (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

2001-02-08 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Alvestrand wrote: > > At 09:17 08/02/2001 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Anyway, I agree with Mr Gao that it will be usefull to have a distinguishing > >name for the last network element, something like ONE "outest network element" > >or END "edge netework device" or any other that m

john klensin evaluates ICANN

2001-02-08 Thread Richard J. Sexton
>From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >First of all, without commenting on this particular story, >everyone who is (or has been) concerned about the ICANN topic >should be aware that its entire history, and most of its >pre-history, has been characterized by various interest groups >who will

RE: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread Iliff, Tina
Yes, however, I think we have three terms here: 1. end-to-end: path from host to host 2. Network edge: Internet access edge 3. Network edge: LAN edge Maybe, start using local edge to indicate the LAN edge Tina Iliff -Original Message- From: John Stracke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Ravi Shiroor
1. The web page of IETF which gives an overview of IETF (http://www.ietf.org/overview.html) says: > The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large > open international community of network designers, operators, > vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the > Internet archi

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Keith Moore
> The prevailing view seems to be "the Commerce Department giveth, and the > Commerce Department can taketh away." the major premise is false.

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Randy Bush
>>> I found this news report of some concern >> glad to hear it. but it does not seem to be an internet ENGINEERING >> issue. > So, who's issue is it then? first, i don't know whose issue grape juice is either. i just know it's not an ietf issue. the ietf is not the internet's default garbage

RE: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Liz Walter
Hiding under "engineering" as if it were a warm fuzzy blanket that somehow depoliticizes your work, won't help to keep the Internet open and free. Thank you Graham for posting this to this group. -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2

NECP

2001-02-08 Thread jamal
This is not meant to start any religious wars. So dont use it as an excuse. I am curious as to what happened to NECP. All the drafts have expired and there doesnt seem to be any renewal effort happening. Could someone please help me out here? cheers, jamal

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread John Stracke
Kevin Farley wrote: > So you think your PC is the edge of the Internet? Isn't that what the end-to-end principle means? -- /=\ |John Stracke| http://www.ecal.com |My opinions are my own. | |Chief Scientist |==

RE: An alternative to TCP (part 2)

2001-02-08 Thread Iliff, Tina
I do agree with your point regarding the possibility of differentiated services QoS degrading router performance. In my opinion it may add slight delays in transport. However, I do see a benefit in offering more than two service levels. I guess that you can say that assured forwarding and exped

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Ravi Shiroor
So, who's issue is it then? ravi. Randy Bush wrote: > > I found this news report of some concern > > glad to hear it. but it does not seem to be an internet ENGINEERING issue. > > randy

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread david
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:54:45AM +, Graham Klyne wrote: > I found this news report of some concern, not because of what ICANN is > supposed to have done or not done, but because it seems there is a > presumption by some that ICANN is answerable to US Congress. I understood > that the who

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread david
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 06:21:16AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > > I found this news report of some concern > > glad to hear it. but it does not seem to be an internet ENGINEERING issue. > > randy > It is a constraint. It defines the limits of the practicable. David Schutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 08 February, 2001 10:54 + Graham Klyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this news report of some concern, not because of what > ICANN is supposed to have done or not done, but because it > seems there is a presumption by some that ICANN is answerable > to US Congress. I un

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Randy Bush
> I found this news report of some concern glad to hear it. but it does not seem to be an internet ENGINEERING issue. randy

Re: To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Robert G. Ferrell
>I found this news report of some concern, not because of what ICANN is >supposed to have done or not done, but because it seems there is a >presumption by some that ICANN is answerable to US Congress. I understood >that the whole purpose of setting up ICANN was to provide Internet >governanc

To whom is ICANN answerable?

2001-02-08 Thread Graham Klyne
I found this news report of some concern, not because of what ICANN is supposed to have done or not done, but because it seems there is a presumption by some that ICANN is answerable to US Congress. I understood that the whole purpose of setting up ICANN was to provide Internet governance tha

Network Edge definition (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

2001-02-08 Thread Harald Alvestrand
At 09:17 08/02/2001 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Anyway, I agree with Mr Gao that it will be usefull to have a distinguishing >name for the last network element, something like ONE "outest network element" >or END "edge netework device" or any other that may be chosen. I think the (layer 3) n

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Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread Jun'an Gao
> you should probably redirect this conversation to > the end2end-interest list: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > the entire IETF list is probably the wrong place for substantive technical > discussion of this type. I agree. I've subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by visiting http://www.postel.org

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-08 Thread joaquin . riverarodriguez
>> > The host *is* the edge of the network. >> >> I'm sorry to have not mentioned that I consider the host nodes, >> or the end nodes, are not edges but instead something attaching >> on network edges. I consider the very last hub, or the access router >> which the end nodes connected to as the