TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Jon PostelBut as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.
Jon PostelI got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
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