[Bloat] Random idea in reaction to all the discussion of TCPflavours - timestamps?

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 18:58:33 EDT 2011


On 21 Mar, 2011, at 12:50 am, Dave Täht wrote:

>>>> 0) Buffering more than 1 second of data is always unacceptable.
> 
> Well, in the case of the DTN, it's required.
> 
> We're not testing interplanetary networks here, (rather, an artificially
> induced one extending out well beyond the moon!) but it bears a little
> thinking about.

It appears that most practical solutions for a DTN involve explicit store-and-forward techniques, and these would be irrelevant at the IP routing level.

 - Jonathan




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