Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP
Message-ID: <1989Nov24.165058.258@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <287@usenix.UUCP> <1624@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov16.182104.23746@utzoo.uucp> <92074@pyramid.pyramid.com> <51949@looking.on.ca>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 89 16:50:58 GMT

In article <51949@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Ease of implementation is important.  We want this to come up on a lot
>of systems, and if we tell everybody to implement IP or X.25, it just makes
>it less likely.

Uh, Brad, IP is not a complex protocol.  Really.  Not like X.25.  Especially
if, as in this situation, you really only need to be able to interoperate
with yourself -- many of the odds and ends in good TCP/IP implementations
boil down to enforcing proper behavior on congested shared networks.

Note also that there are several semi-freeware TCP/IP implementations
already in existence.  There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
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