Re: Three states for a binary bit (was Re: TCP (and SCTP) sucks on high speed networks)

[George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au>]

If the marginal cost of 'overengineering' dropped radically, so we could
get to 100x in front of current end-to-end requirements, would people stop
dicking with protocols to make them more efficient?

And would that be a good thing?

As a customer, I'd sure rather run simple IP with no intermediate wierdness
and I'd probably pay capex and long-baseline engineering/infrastructure costs
if it meant we cut to the chase and had glass pipes running everywhere...

-George
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