[ih] Origins of Go-Back-N

[touch at strayalpha.com]

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Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
www.strayalpha.com

> On Nov 14, 2021, at 1:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wouldn’t be surprised if go-back-N had origins near that time 
> or before.
> 
> In human speech, I would guess that "Say again!" or its equivalent has been in use for at least 100,000 years. So Go-Back-N would always have been obvious to one skilled in the art of conversation.

Agreed. CSMA/CD is basically how people speak in a group.

IMO, the distinction is also the transition from ‘practice’ to ‘protocol’, i.e., from “we use it” to “formal rules of interaction”. 

Joe