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  2. From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
  4. Subject: Re: Congestion Avoidance
  5. Message-ID: <12386@pinard>
  6. Date: 27 Jul 92 12:32:02 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul19.130005.1@research.ptt.nl> <1992Jul25.092823.12189@e2big.mko.dec.com> <k3jm90-.nagle@netcom.com>
  8. Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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  11. In article <k3jm90-.nagle@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
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  13. |        Uh oh.  As the one-time congestion maven of the Internet
  14. |(look at the RFCs that bear my name) I somehow thought the cell relay
  15. |people had developed a new solution to the problem that would make
  16. |huge connectionless nets work.  If they haven't, there's going to be
  17. |trouble a few years downstream.
  18.  
  19. ATM is connection oriented only. Any connectionless traffic carried
  20. over ATM will be a service using a connection oriented backbone.
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  23. |
  24. |        The existing (NSFNET) approach of generously sizing the backbone using
  25. |government subsidies, may not translate well to the commercial world.
  26. |
  27. |                            John Nagle
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  31. i.sinature
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