Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism

Wed Aug 4 14:26:12 UTC 1999

Sounds to me like UUCP.

"Mark R. Lindsey" wrote:
> 
> I am seeking a mechanism for reliable delivery of large blobs through a
> network of occasionally-connected hosts that can forward the blobs using
> available transport protocols.
> 
> I can't find it, though. Most of the networking materials I can find
> deal more with immediate-transmission networks, where the destination
> host is reachable at the instant that the source host transmits. (This
> isn't a catenet.)