[e2e] TCP Framing

Lixia Zhang lixia at CS.UCLA.EDU
Mon Mar 26 12:16:36 PST 2001


> Jim,
> 
> I would suggest that the marketplace is most specifically a poor place
> to make wise high-level technical decisions.  One could make the case
> that TCP/IP has been so successful just because it was allowed to
> mature in military and academic environments that shielded it from
> irrelevant marketplace pressures for many years.  X.25 is a good
> example of a technology that did not have that advantage.  There are
> also XNS, WAP, VHS, and lots of other examples of market-driven
> entries.

I beg to exclude XNS from the rest of the "market-driven" entries.

Lixia
(unrelated to the fact that I worked for Xerox for 7 years)



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