26 Jun
2022
26 Jun
'22
3:35 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 09:07:49AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 10:20 PM Noel Chiappa
<jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I knew Mike, interesting dude. His "The Elements of Networking Style" is
a very fun read but also, for me, just getting to understand networking,
it snapped a bunch of stuff into focus. I think you have to read it
at just the right spot in your career and I did. Great little book and
full of jabs like "If you know what you are doing, 3 layers are enough.
If you don't, 7 aren't."
it had things called 'flows' which were
half way between pure
datagrams (i.e. no setup - you just stick the right destination address in
the
header and send it off) and VCs (read the RFCs if you want to kow why),
In that connection I have always admired Padlipsky's RFC 962, which
exploits the existing TCP architecture to do just this. So simple, so
easy, so Unixy.