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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Can of worms revisited
Message-ID: <350@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 07:00:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: sering.350
Posted: Fri Sep 25 07:00:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 20:08:17 EDT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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	...have chosen an accounting fiction, the "segment" as a way to
	deal with variance in actual and in maximum packet sizes.
	The public network administration announces the segment size (in
	octets) and the charges are for the number of octets sent on a
	given virtual circuit.
Note that the accounting entity "segment" comprises
pure user data only, no headers and other stuff.

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	(piet@cwi.nl)