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>From [email protected] Sat Nov 4 15:13:10 1995 >Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 12:48:36 -0800 (PST) >From: Michael Dillon <[email protected]> >X-Sender: [email protected] >To: Hans-Werner Braun <[email protected]> >cc: Mike <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] >Subject: Re: links on the blink (fwd) >In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Hans-Werner Braun wrote: > >> I will not go into a point by point rebuttal here, even though I >> generally do not subscribe to your arguments. I am not planning on >> "winning" here, I just want to get the issues on the table and evaluate >> the solution space. Just let me ask you, as a customer who fairly >> frequently experiences 10% packet loss between major Internet locations >> across major service providers (no mom and pop shops in the middle or >> at the end points), how would you suggest I deal with that? > >Uh... Ignore it? >10% packet loss is quite within the normal range of parameters for a >packet switching network such as the Internet. If you want 0% packet loss, >you can lease your own private point-to-point lines. Uh... Michael, when we were running the NSFNET, as Hans-Werner and many readers of this list are well aware, we did _not_ accept 10% packet loss on any link or across the network. These problems stayed with the NSFNET NOC until resolution by the provider, MCI. We only considered -0%- loss to be acceptable. Sorry if others also responded to this, Steve Richardson/Merit >Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 >Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 >http://www.memra.com E-mail: [email protected]
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