Re: Meta-issues: On the deprecation of the fragmentation function

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 09 July 2013 16:24 UTC

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> Not all deployed links are built out of wired/wireless
> Ethernet or SONET.  The assumption that everything is either
> Ethernet or SONET (or perhaps WDM) is a bit of a "First
> World" assumption and puts lesser-developed countries/regions
> at a significant disadvantage for Internet access.  

my small experience is that there are no technologies unique
to the Nth world.  we all buy and use the same crap from the
carriers, vendors, ...