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From: jsa@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: A network you can trust
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Date: 25 Mar 88 20:29:41 GMT
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Is it really that "obvious that the host wants to protect itself and provide
itself good service regardless of what the network claims to provide,
and so should run a strong transport like TCP."?  If this were true,
wouldn't the Europeans be using TP4 over their PTT-provided X.25 nets
instead of TP0?

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