[e2e] TCP Framing

[Jon Crowcroft]

In message <3AC07995.10056.18800C at localhost>, John Laws typed:

 >>I never knew that (and I'm old), but it's a very "interesting" 
 >>connection (James Burke, Scientific American style) back to another 
 >>Jon (Crowcroft) at UCL AND that the major benefactor for the 
 >>foundation of UCL is a Jeremy Bentham. His mummified body is in a 
 >>display case within UCL (a condition I think of granting his money 
 >>over to UCL).
 
John

technically, Bentham was not a founder - he was the mentor for a group
of utilitarians who were the actual foudners - his body is in a glass
case in the Quad (mummified, sans head)  and has top be present at all
college council meetings (interesting given he was against all
organised religion) - his head is elsewherre (believed to be in a safe
since various pranksters stole it and did various dubious things to
it, though i have heard the same story about oliver cromwell's head in
cambridge (pembroke college?)...)

those of you coming to the London IETF this summer may wish to visit UCL 
and see for yourselves - see
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ietf/
for a totally informal set of info about this event

i believe ip protocol #7 is still assigned as 
7  UCL UCL [PK]
for those of you interested in history - it was part of a "remote"
transport end-point hack that was called "clean and simple" that
allowed one to concatenate a variety of "end" to end protocols
together and provide transparent protocol translation - the way the
different families linked to each other was through a type of "network
address translation" in a true sense of translation, and so long as the
protocols had the right semantics, the service actually kind of
worked.... (module signaled error models...:-)

one of the protocols went by the name of yellow book ,and another
was TP4 and another was a Byte Stream Protocol on a Cambridge ring and
another was something we came across in 81 called TCP....

of course, the term "clean and simple" was (i believe) ironic


 cheers

   jon