On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 08:08 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > are there any protocols that deal well with latency? > IP does by design. The correct approach to the problem is the sliding-window technique and I can only presume that applications that suffer from high latency are written to conflict with the underlying protocols.
I mean, we've had X-modem since the ark. I've tried to avoid becoming too familiar with 9P to be able to comment because my mind isn't as sharp as it was when I produced end-to-end protocols to run on 300 bps lines, but maybe somebody can explain to me whether 9P is one such ill-mannered application. From the immediately preceding discussion, it doesn't seem so, but I do not speak from a position of knowledge. ++L
