[ih] capacity v bandwidth

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sun May 31 13:57:24 PDT 2026


Unfortunately we failed to correct that terminological error in RFC 6214
(the IPv6 version of RFC 1149), and worse we discussed "bandwidth-delay product".

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter

On 01-Jun-26 07:53, D Waitzman via Internet-history wrote:
> In RFC-1149, I wrote "The bandwidth is limited to the leg length."
> 
> I stand corrected that I should have used "capacity", but then the pun would not work.
> What's more important, the pun or technically accuracy? :-)
> 
> --
> David Waitzman
> 


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