A Header Prediction: (was Re: [e2e] congestion control for flows w. small packets)

[Julian Satran]

Steph,

You are overly optimistic.  Unless we start all hiding some useful payload
in headers (as we did in iSCSI) we may end transporting almost only
protocol information.  And who needs something else?

Julo




Stephen Bailey <steph at cs.uchicago.edu>
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> Predicition: header size for a protocol  will increase monotonically
until
> the maximum payload size is 48 bytes.

Seems like the millennium update of Martin Minow's 3rd rule of
programming: on any system, no matter how large, 32K is always
reserved for the user.

Steph