[e2e] end2end vs smtp

[Tim Moors]

I think that their point stems from a common
misconception that the reliability of TCP is perfect -
there is not even the possibility of an errored
segment evading detection by TCP's checksum.  This
misconception probably follows the juxtaposition of
"reliable" TCP vs "unreliable" UDP.  It would be nice
if the true endpoints could check integrity (as this
draft proposes) and TCP's checksum could be disabled
for cases such as this where it is redundant and may
interfere with performance.


Tim

--- Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> Is it me, or does point 1 of
> 
>
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Announcements/draft-bose-smtp-integrity.ann
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> completely neglect the end2end argument?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> L.
> 
>
<L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
> 


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