On 09/08/2015 09:04, Geoff Thompson wrote: ... >> The success of the (reasonably well layered) TCP/IP suite would indicate >> that the market has decided that this is a cost well worth paying. > > Precisely my point, except that it is not true. The datagram service that > was provided for with such "success" by TCP/IP does not provide the same > service over all physical layers. In fact the now predominant physical > layers do not provide sufficiently low-jitter, low loss service for all > legacy services to work well.
You mean, sufficient compared with 4800 baud modems over spotty analogue phone lines, which were predominant when those legacy apps, right up to HTTP/1.0, were invented? What don't work well are *modern* services invented for broadband, in the absence of anything accurately described as broadband. But, yes, I hope the final list of requirements for the homenet routing protocol includes: works adequately on lossy wireless media with poor multicast support. Brian _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet