[e2e] TCP Framing

[Cannara]

Definitely agree, given Xerox's tradition of 'success' in marketing.  XNS was
researched rather than marketed.  TCP/IP, however, has been subsidized beyond
grandest imaginings -- free distribution with Sun, ATT, HP... machines for
years, untold public $ spent on graduate students, research projects, papers,
committees...  And, the real hero of the Internet, Bob Kahn, rarely gets the
recognition he deserves, for zealously working to maintain the flow of public
finances, even when DARPA was ready to cut and run.  Even now, millions more
are being spent to get back even the basics of a secure, uniformly-addressable
internetworking structure that were overlooked in the adolescent design
process that has left us with the profoundly hackable Internet protocol
family.  I only use "adolescent" rather than "bureaucratic" here, because The
Economist has an Internet piece out using that modifier. {:o]

Alex

Lixia Zhang wrote:
> 
> > 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)