John E Drake wrote:
See also:
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2012/press_091312.html
It seems to me that Akamai is doing things which must be
banned by IETF.
Akamai IP Application Accelerator
http://www.atoll.gr/media/brosures/FS_IPA.pdf
Packet Loss Reduction
Application performance is also affected
by packet loss, which may be particularly
troublesome when traffic traverses
international network paths. IP Application
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Accelerator uses a variety of advanced
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packet loss reduction techniques, including
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forward error correction and optional packet
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replication to eliminate packet loss.
Masataka Ohta