Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI)

Sat Aug 22 16:08:18 UTC 1998

> From: Michael Dillon <michael at memra.com>
> They aren't legitimate if the sole purpose of the method is to create
> traffic; that would be fraud. A webcrawler would be fine if it was for a
> search engine but not if you just ran it and discarded the data.
>
Are you telling me that your model requires examination of the content
of packets, and auditing the "legitimate" internal practices of the
hosts?

Are you telling me that I should not duplicate packets, as that would be
"fraud"?

Are you telling me that I should not fill my pipe with duplicate Acks,
as that would be "fraud"?

Michael, go home, take the weekend off, and in your spare time, re-read
RFCs 1 to 1123.  Take special note that duplication of packets is
permitted, even encouraged.

Your model does not correspond to the Internet.

WSimpson at UMich.edu
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