USENIX Board Studies UUCP
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sat Nov 25 03:50:58 AEST 1989
In article <51949 at looking.on.ca> brad at looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Ease of implementation is important. We want this to come up on a lot
>of systems, and if we tell everybody to implement IP or X.25, it just makes
>it less likely.
Uh, Brad, IP is not a complex protocol. Really. Not like X.25. Especially
if, as in this situation, you really only need to be able to interoperate
with yourself -- many of the odds and ends in good TCP/IP implementations
boil down to enforcing proper behavior on congested shared networks.
Note also that there are several semi-freeware TCP/IP implementations
already in existence. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
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