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Re: [Int-area] Call for adoption of draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp-03

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Tue, 31 May 2016 20:11 UTC

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On 5/31/2016 1:01 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I don't understand what network capacity has to do with the physical
> and mathematical fact that packets larger than N bytes will not fit
> into a packet limited to N bytes. That was true in 1983 and will still
> be true in 2083. Brian

Agreed.

Further, we always hit the "hardware can't do it yet" problem whenever
we roll out new technologies.

We have to resist the urge to prune our protocols down to only what we
profitably implement today.

Joe

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