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Jeremy, You're so funny. ;-) Only Bob Matecalfe's zany antics entertain me more than this [printed] drivel. Thanks for pointing it out. - paul (speaking for myself, of course; standard disclaimers apply) At 06:39 PM 8/28/96 -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote: >Dead of the Net predicted GIF, at 11. > >If you believe Business Week, August 26, "Above all >finacial incentives for investment must ome into line. Right now, >customers who pay a mere $20 a month, can blast the net with untold >megabytes of data, voice and video. Without usaged-based charges service >providers are called on to upgrade their infrastructure with no clear promise of a return on investment." > >Under the section "Dirty Secret" "One dirty little secret is that most >phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions >by using a bully of a communications method called UDP. Unlike the more >polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back >when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing >ahead of TCP traffic. Yet UDP customers aren't paying anything extra for >their fast lane". > >Sigh, you should see the section on peering. Its worse. > >Its a good thing none of these journalist used the train, telegraph, >or telephone systems when they were growing at these extact same rates, >or we wouldn't have trains or telephones today. A little research >into the growth of the telephone network reveals very similar patterns. > >Clue seems to be a conserved quanitity in the universe, such that >as the net gets lager the clue-denisty gets lower, thus causing >most of the problems we see today. > >If only we had been able to get the Network Clue Transport Protocol >going in time. > >-- >Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. [email protected] >PO BOX 80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 1-800-968-8750 | 512-459-9816 >http://www.fc.net > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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