Re: RE: AD request / L2 Triggers Chapter Statement

Chip Elliott <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:22:14 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pilc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just a quick followup. Indeed, the first "Internet" was in the
70s and consisted of the ARPANET, packet radio net (wireless),
and satellite network (wireless). Not to say that IP is entirely
hospitable to wireless, particularly TCP, but wireless has been
there since before the beginning.

Chip Elliott
Principal Engineer, BBN

> > My claim, is that IP IS NOT DONE FOR WIRELESS.  Its only
> > just begun.  If you shoot me down here in this BOF, other more powerful
> > wireless Jedi will follow me!!! :-)
> >
>Sorry - WRONG.
>I would suggest you people study what the "packet radio community" has
>implemented many years ago. And this has significantly influenced the design
>of the IP and TCP protocols when the Old Arpanet NCP had to be redesigned
>for a more heterogeneous and wireless environment!


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