On 05/04/2013 10:03, Dave Cridland wrote: > On 5 Apr 2013 09:47, "Loa Andersson" <loa@xxxxx> wrote: >> Bob, >> >> thinking about this and assuming that the FTL Communication are deployed >> in a not too far distant future, wouldn't we have started to receive >> packets that was sent in the future already now? >> > > Indeed, and this tells us that publication of this was important, since > we'll need to be in a position to handle the issues that will occur much > sooner than deployment, and for that matter development of the technology. If the announcement of the RFC had arrived on March 31st, that would have demonstrated running code.