How to tell you're not respected...

Stefan Savage (savage@cs.washington.edu)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 08:47:15 -0800

The end2end list these days is resembling the impeachment hearings...
anyway, this guy from ibm is a bit of a jerk and has had the poor
judgement to piss on "everything Internet" in his posts. This is the
outcome.

- Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Paxson [mailto:vern@ee.lbl.gov]
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 1998 6:42 PM
To: cannara@ibm.net
Cc: end2end-interest@ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: Transport protocol for transaction p

> Certainly the Internet, early on, provided a difficult medium. On
corporate
> and other dedicated internetworks, the MTU issues never arose in this
way. It
> should be no issue now for, say, the Ethernet MTU to be an end-end
Internet
> standard, given current equipment.

Is there any part of the Internet architecture that you actually
understand?

Vern