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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: BS in InfoWorld
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Date: 21 Mar 89 19:32:01 GMT
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Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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Sigh.  On page 12 of the March 20 InfoWorld, there is Yet Another report of
the Imminent Death of TCP/IP by Mark Stephens.  Some of the more laughable
gaffes:
  o TCP is required to check for errors, which makes the protocol "not
    especially fast".
  o "TCP/IP that lacks Telnet, FTP and SMTP is not TCP/IP."
  o "Don't fault the architects of TCP/IP, who couldn't know there would be
    millions of IP addresses in use today, but their choice of a 32-bit
    address means that we are running out of addresses."
-russ
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If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama