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  1. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!csus.edu!netcomsv!mork!nagle
  3. From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
  4. Subject: Re: Congestion Avoidance
  5. Message-ID: <k3jm90-.nagle@netcom.com>
  6. Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 18:38:07 GMT
  7. Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
  8. References: <1992Jul18.230550.3046@sics.se> <1992Jul19.130005.1@research.ptt.nl> <1992Jul25.092823.12189@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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  11.         Uh oh.  As the one-time congestion maven of the Internet
  12. (look at the RFCs that bear my name) I somehow thought the cell relay
  13. people had developed a new solution to the problem that would make
  14. huge connectionless nets work.  If they haven't, there's going to be
  15. trouble a few years downstream.
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  17.         The existing (NSFNET) approach of generously sizing the backbone using
  18. government subsidies, may not translate well to the commercial world.
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  20.                             John Nagle
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