Re: Short sequences (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

2001-02-07 Thread Keith Moore
One of the history lessons on this list about 6 months back referred to Dag Belsnes' original research proving that you cannot move a data item and end up with both parties knowing that the data has arrived safely in less than 5 packets. Other people have the referentsit's not obvious to

Re: Short sequences (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

2001-02-07 Thread Matt Crawford
Is that a bit of chauvinism, Harald? :-) D. Belsnes, "Single-Message Communication," IEEE Transactions on Communication, Vol. TCOM -24, No. 2, pp. 190--194, February 1976.