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Re: Is round-trip time no longer a concern?

2006-02-19 16:40:27
Dave Crocker <dhc2(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> writes:

Is it true that we no longer need to worry about regularly adding extra
round-trips to popular protocols that operate over the open Internet?

It was certainly a significant issue that was much-discussed in the
working group when we were working on the new NNTP standards.  People
maintaining major commercial NNTP services said that excessive round trips
were a performance concern for them.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)             
<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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