Re: [nwcrg] Spencer Dawkins' Yes on draft-irtf-nwcrg-network-coding-satellites-13: (with COMMENT)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 23 May 2020 22:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [nwcrg] Spencer Dawkins' Yes on draft-irtf-nwcrg-network-coding-satellites-13: (with COMMENT)
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> On 2020-05-24, at 00:14, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> I doubt that
> network coding across a path including a satellite link can beat the
> coding and modulation that can be dynamically applied to the satellite
> link.

Very likely so.  But the keyword is “can be applied”.  Is it?
When is the clunky sat terminal written off and up for renewal?

This is the (not so unlikely) situation where LOOPS-style in-network recovery can be useful even for satellite losses.

Grüße, Carsten