[e2e] Jon Crowcroft's thought questions...

[Christian Huitema]

> But somehow I can't see how any of this is relevant to the technical
> point I was making about the use of chatty and inefficient protocols in
> resource-constrained environments.

One of the most successful Internet protocols, SMTP, is quite chatty. Much more chatty than, say, X.400. That did not prevent a large deployment, including in the narrow networks of 15 years ago. At some point, interoperability trumps performance.
 
-- Christian Huitema