On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
On 11/17/2011 8:58 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Please see the reader comment by Oor Nonny-Muss on this story to understand
its relevance to the IETF.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/salad_leaf_turns_out_to_be_dead_bird/
The original IETF plenary presentation on the implementation and testing of
the avian carrier IP link did note that this mechanism was extremely good at
testing the quality of and implementations TCP retransmission code.
So this example of packet loss well might apply.
I suspect it was more like encryption.
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