- From: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:36:51 +0100
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, Claudio Allocchio <Claudio.Allocchio@garr.it>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, John Ibbotson <john_ibbotson@uk.ibm.com>, Discuss Apps <discuss@apps.ietf.org>, Richard P King <rpk@us.ibm.com>
Keith Moore wrote: > > > Exactly. We can all agree on this. So given that fact, and the fact that > > people do want to reliably transfer hypertext across unreliable, > > non-transparent and intermittently connected networks, what should we do? > > We should explain why it doesn't make good sense to do these things, > and provide alternatives that do make sense. Wait a minute. I'd love it if the network was reliable, transparent and connected 100% of the time, but it isn't. We have to deal with that. Brian
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