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From: "David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>
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To: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>,
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Subject: Re: When will ETCP be in linux kernels? Is there a patch?
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Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> > > > Will ETCP
> > > > http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~beichuan/etcp/
> > > > be appearing in linux kernels any time soon?  We have ECN...
> > >
> > > isn't it just a draft?  I though ECN was considerably further along...
> >
> > No, it works -- if you set up a BSD system and apply their patch,
> > the second image loads fully too -- I did it once, and it worked
> > just like it is supposed to.
> 
> that wasn't the question: is it just a draft, or a standard like ECN?
> whether there's working code is orthogonal to it's standardization...

A working implementation (blessed by Christian Huitama) is IMO a defacto
standard.

I inquired of the TCP-IMPL working group about setting something like
ETCP up, to the point of submitting an independent proposal pretty much
describing it, and was referred to the ETCP demonstration.



-- 
                                           David Nicol 816.235.1187
    Cell phones are pretty much what Marconi had in mind, you know?

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