Re: MPLS,IETF, etc..

2001-09-04 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
Jon Crowcroft wrote: a node might be simpler but the system composed of a graph of suvch nodes more complex - you (as switch or router vendors) might get to make your h/w or s/w simpler at the level of forwarding, bu the overal syusytem that manages routes and traffic might be less simple

Re: [Hist Trivia] IP Protocol Layers

2001-07-19 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
Jon Crowcroft wrote: In message v04220802b77bde136984@[10.83.97.216], Steve Deering typed: We used to use gateway instead of router (and a few still do), and i lik the fact that if you type getaway by mistake you get what people are trying to do when they are routed ... i also like

Re: don't panic.

2001-05-14 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
missed last chance to see Douglas Adams :( Jon Crowcroft wrote:

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-07 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
Richard Carlson wrote: You're right, the TCP peak was 1.48Gbps from the show floor in Dallas to a storage cluster at Berkeley Laboratory. Single applications using multiple stream. Bottleneck link was 1.5Gbps provisioned circuit on Qwest link from convention center to DARPA's HSCC pop

Re: Unreliable TCP work?

2000-10-13 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
Sam Liang wrote: Hello, I am wondering if there has been any work done on enhancing TCP to allow unreliable transmission for real-time applications (audio/video). enhancing...don't you mean degrading? :) :)

Re: Quality task force on web sites

2000-09-06 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Maha devan Iyer typed: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Barathy, RamaSubramaniam wrote: Hello Everybody, Would it not be nice to have some sort of quality control task force that assigns a quality level for

Re: Quality task force on web sites

2000-09-05 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Barathy, RamaSubramaniam wrote: Hello Everybody, Would it not be nice to have some sort of quality control task force that assigns a quality level for the web sites through out the world. This would make the site developers to bring in the higher quality to the

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open network like the Internet to control critical matter-of-life-and-death public infrastructure like power systems. What do you think? Or do you think, it is possible to build ultra-reliable secure real-time communication channels in the

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
Probably, there is some universe out there made of AnTi-Matter and where anti-packets are mostly routed using anti-IP, or in other words...ATM. :) On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Brijesh Kumar wrote: Chuck writes, It's my understanding that disturbances in The Force were actually routed using

Explicit Rate flow control in IP.

2000-05-16 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
I was curious to know why support or a standard for explicit rate flow control to be provided by ISP's has not been considered in IETF yet. I hope this general list is the best suited to posting my message. As we well know, even simple scalable explicit rate protocols similar to EPRCA or