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Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu> Tue, 05 March 2013 17:59 UTC

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On 3/5/2013 8:18 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote:

> Martin already mentioned RMCAT. And I mentioned Wgs wanting to build "lightweight" UDP-based protocols, which are hitting transport issues incl. congestion control all the time.

Which is why we learned 30 years ago that building a transport protocol 
at the application layer is generally a Bad Idea. Why do the same bad 
ideas keep being reinvented?

Bob Braden

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