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From: kent@DECWRL.DEC.COM
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Subject: Re: Dial-up TCP/IP (was interactive SMTP over phone lines)
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 13:19:26 EDT
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Vint,

That was the plan -- to run all the protocols intact. The original
impetus for the idea was to punt explicit store-and-forward mail
systems (like uucp). I'm not in favor of introducing any new mechanisms
into the Internet that require explicit routing by the user.

We already have people doing dial-up IP from home machines, and Dave
Mills has had fuzzies doing it for much longer than that (I booted my
first fuzzball long distance at 1200 baud in 1983, and it was old hat
then). The problem seems to be making multi-hop configurations work
with existing TCP/SMTP implementations.

chris