RE: comments on draft-ietf-tcpsat-stand-mech-04.txt

From: Falk, Aaron ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jun 18 1998 - 11:40:24 EDT


=> >IMHO, add:
=> >
=> >> | Ack every packet | Recommended | 4.X
=> | R |
=> >
=>
=> Mark and I went around on this early on and wound up moving
=> acknowledgement
=> issues to the research issues draft. I would tend to go
=> along with you
=> with the caveat that asymmetric systems should consider the
=> impact on their
=> return channel. Also, if everyone started acking every
=> packet, would this
=> hurt the network?
=>

My opinion is to include it as a recommendation with appropriate
caveats. I don't think that because it is only good in some satellite
scenarios that it now becomes a research issue.

--aaron

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