[Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

[Dave Taht]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wesley Eddy <wes at mti-systems.com> wrote:
> On 4/26/2011 2:17 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>
>> "Big Buffers Bad. Small Buffers Good."
>>
>> "*Some* packet loss is essential for the correct operation of the
>> Internet"
>>
>> are two of the memes I try to propagate, in their simplicity. Even
>> then there are so many qualifiers to both of those that the core
>> message gets lost.
>
>
> The second one is actually backwards; it should be "the Internet can
> operate correctly with some packet loss".
>
INCORRECT.

See? We can't win, even amongst ourselves.

The Internet *cannot operate correctly without packet loss*.

RFC970, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc970.html



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