[e2e] Open the floodgate

[Joe Touch]

To be fair, Rhee has an Infocom paper on this protocol; I'm sure that's 
a better way to judge it than a press release.

I'm not sure of the utility of press releases in designing protocols at all.

Joe

John Day wrote:

> At 07:43 -0400 4/20/04, David P. Reed wrote:
> 
>> At 04:31 AM 4/20/2004, Kostas Pentikousis wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, "TCP is so 80s it may be obsolete today."
>>
>>
>> From an outsider's perspective it looks like Injhong Rhee's publicist 
>> is jealous of Karl Rove...darn - (s)he could have been working for 
>> George Bush, and instead all (s)he gets is this lousy gig promoting 
>> network drag races.
> 
> 
> Is it only me or does it bug anyone else that a CS professor wouldn't 
> know the difference between  physical layer bandwidth to transport 
> bandwidth?  Comparing DSL and TCP makes no sense. TCP over DSL won't run 
> any faster! "DSL over fiber" (whatever that means) would run much faster 
> than DSL over twisted pair!  Do these people think before they write 
> this junk?!   ;-)   Excuse the rant!
> 
> And  of course, as we all know TCP was actually designed in the 70's! 
> not the 80s!  ;-))
> 
> It is Rhee's responsibility to ensure that the press releases don't make 
> him sound dumb.  There are ways of making claims and still be 
> technically correct.  If a student made that sort of comparison on a 
> test I am sure Rhee would take points off!  ;-)  At least, I hope he would.
> 
> Take care,
> John
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