On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:37:33 PDT, Dave Crocker said:
particular set of protocols. The current context of the terms is tied to
the TCP/IP suite, rather than claiming to be generic to all data networking.
That's a feature, not a bug.
We're the *INTERNET* Engineering Task Force. The few places where traffic
is being carried in non-IP networks (for instance, the uglyness involved
in connecting the serial port of this laptop connected to the port of the
terminal server over a 56K modem, or carrying IP over an ATM cloud), we
write an encapsulation and get on with our lives.
We have definitions for things like "packet" that work for *our* purposes.
I fear that if we try to devise a definition of "packet" that makes
sense for *all* data networking (I suspect ATM cells will be fun in this
context), we will end up with something so fuzzy that the only use for it
will be to make a cashmere sweater....
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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