Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:03:20 -0500
From: "David Fischer" <>
<df>Correct, what might we do that is better?
Do we really want to do anything?</df>
No, I don't think we do. Despite the Partridge et. al. paper, I think
we can rely on the transport protocols to catch bit corruption.
Of course an IM should never stop an end-to-end retry; of course if
the protocol allows for end-to-end retry, there would be an easy and
well-defined way to differentiate. The proposed "retry count" is one
way to do it.
<df>Agreed. Is there another way you might prefer?</df>
No, retry count is fine with me.
