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

[John Day]

Of greater concern is there is no congestion control.

John

> On Sep 30, 2020, at 20:58, Joseph Touch via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On Sep 30, 2020, at 4:58 PM, Craig Partridge via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> We already have TCP-MD5, TCP-AO, TLS, and IPsec.
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> Why wouldn’t one (any one) of those suffice?
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> Alternately, your own TCP checksum option - which had 25 yrs to gain traction before it was officially declared obsolete?
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> Joe
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