On Apr 2, 2012, at 6:33 PM, Elwyn Davies wrote: > On 02/04/12 18:53, Scott Brim wrote: >> On 04/02/12 03:12, Riccardo Bernardini allegedly wrote: >>> In the Introduction I read >>> >>> "Mind you, the Null Packet is not created by compressing a packet until it >>> disappears into nothingness." >>> >>> That is nice, since I believe that doing so would create a "black hole >>> packet" that would attract and collapse the whole Internet. On the >>> plus side, we would not need to worry anymore about IPv6... >> There's your RFC for next April. > Of course some theorists believe that all communication links carry a continual traffic of Null Packets resulting from the scalar TOS Field that pervades the Internet and occasionally quantum fluctuations result in pairs of virtual packets (such as ICMP Echo and Echo Responses) being created and traveling off in opposite directions. Normally most of these virtual packets recombine without being observed, but occasionally they result in unexpected congestion when an encounter with a router collapses the superposition of protocol states in which these virtual packets normally exist. > You're talking about the hard to detect Biggs Bozon packets as first theorized by Billy Biggs back in '99 and for which he specified a distributed detection experiment hidden inside NAT traversal procedures? -- Dean