[ih] "how better protocols could solve those problems better"

[Joseph Touch]

> On Sep 30, 2020, at 4:58 PM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> I've got some NSF funding to figure out what the error patterns are
> (nobody's capturing them) with the idea we might propose a new checksum
> and/or add checkpointing into the file transfer protocols.  It is little
> hard to add something on top of protocols that have a fail/discard model.

We already have TCP-MD5, TCP-AO, TLS, and IPsec.

Why wouldn’t one (any one) of those suffice?

Alternately, your own TCP checksum option - which had 25 yrs to gain traction before it was officially declared obsolete?

Joe