Re: Automatic Tunneling for Rapid Multicast Deployment

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

>  >>The *real* historical reason why IGMP is a separate protocol from the
>  >>router-to-router protocol was to allow the use of multiple, different
> 
> um, i thought at the time that the breakthrough was in designing 
> the first working example of a new communications paradigm:
> receiver driven end to end protocols

...but TCP is receiver driven! ( ack clocking, receiver windows,
Savage demonstrating subtle effects of receiver control, etc.) er,
what am I missing?

L.

> history is bunk - ford
> ford is dead - god
> god is dead - nietcsze
> god is ford - huxley
> landrover is ford - bmw

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