On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Dave CROCKER 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 suspect it was more like encryption. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf