On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Dave CROCKER <dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 11/17/2011 8:58 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> >> Please see the reader comment by Oor Nonny-Muss on this story to >> understand its relevance to the IETF. >> >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/salad_leaf_turns_out_to_be_dead_bird/ > > > The original IETF plenary presentation on the implementation and testing of > the avian carrier IP link did note that this mechanism was extremely good at > testing the quality of and implementations TCP retransmission code. > > So this example of packet loss well might apply. > I think that this is clearly an example of a proprietary tunneling protocol. Regards Marshall > d/ > > -- > > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf