[e2e] Re: [Tsvwg] Really End-to-end or CRC vs everything else?

[Luigi Fratta]

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lf

At 08.47 12/06/01 -0400, David P. Reed wrote:
>At 06:57 PM 6/11/01 -0700, Christian Huitema wrote:
>>What is at stake here is whether we want a safety belt or an alarm bell.
>
>I would argue that the current TCP isn't a very good alarm bell, because it 
>doesn't detect too-smart-for-their-own-good, friendly "adversaries" (such 
>as NATs that recompute the entire checksum correctly after making serious 
>changes to the contents) that inadvertently weaken the detection.
>  Note that, if you really follow the e2e argument, this
>>is OK: the only way to be certain that the back-up went well is by
>>computing a strong checksum over the whole volume, not by trusting TCP.
>
>Indeed.  But then the IETF ought to spread the gospel to the folks who are 
>responsible for FTP and SMTP, for example.  These poor souls typically 
>believe that TCP provides a *reliable* stream, where the word reliable is 
>implicitly defined as *perfect*.
>
>>In fact, it is all a matter of probabilities and arbitrations. The
>>transmission system should be good enough that the backup is OK most of
>>the time, so that the e2e checksum (volume) only fails rarely, so that
>>the cost of correction is acceptable...
>
>I assume you mean by transmitting the whole file again.
>
>- David
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