<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
On 4/27/2011 1:08 PM, A.B. Jr. wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:BANLkTinRddNgbN8UQE3WXnScmGdb-r8acw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; </style>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I think that if end
systems become able to dynamically reconfigure the network to
suit
their needs, this can change many of the assumptions made by
present
days e2e protocols, rendering some parts of them unnecessary,
and
other parts insufficient.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> abj</p>
<br>
</blockquote>
What a GREAT idea. I don't know why we never thought of it. As a
starter, I would like my end system to reconfigure the network to
give me all the available bandwidth and to drop none of my packets.
So, that gets rid of the "fairness" assumption of present day E2E
protocols and avoids the messiness of statistical multiplexing.<br>
<br>
Bob Braden<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>