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<font color="#0000FF">At 07:08 AM 4/20/2006, James L. Rash wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">We should accomplish this by (a)
developing/adopting a small set of re-transmission protocols that will
meet all-but-the-most-usual-mission-needs for the future and (b) disallow
future missions from using any other re-transmission protocols over the
infrastructure we are
"architecting"<b>.</font></b></blockquote><br>
"most-usual" or "most-unusual"?<br><br>
Ours is not to "disallow"; ours is to discourage. We need to
point out where common functions can be implemented in common protocol,
provide the tools and guidance to accomplish them, and let the user
decide.<br><br>
Disallowing something is a policy matter, which is the domain of the
owner of space networking infrastructure. That we are not.<br><br>
///a<br>
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