Re: Why was hop by hop flow control eventually abandonded?

It's before my time, but I'd always assumed it was also influenced by
the NVP work, which would not have wanted hop-by-hop flow control.

Mark

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, at 02:24 PM, Bob Braden wrote:
> I believe that hop-by-hop flow control only works with per-flow state in 
> the routers (see X.25 for example). Once the decision was made that the 
> routers should be stateless, end-to-end flow control was the only 
> option. That is what the end-to-end principle is all about.
> 
> Bob Braden
>