The Virtues of Inefficiency
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Derek Bambauer
One of the Internet’s chief virtues is inefficiency. “Best effort” packet routing – as Jonathan Zittrain describes it, the “bucket brigade” where each link in the network tries to pass packets to the next hop, but without guarantees – is less efficient than a protocol that seeks to guarantee transmission and thereby minimizes bandwidth used [...]
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