From: Masaharu Kobashi (mkbsh@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 05 2004 - 19:39:29 PDT
1. Main result of the paper
The paper proposes a protocol that enables communication between
different packet switching networks conveniently. It also explains
important issues such as routing, different levels of addressing,
sequencing, retransmission and flow control with solutions to them.
2. Strengths in this paper
First, it provides an innovative idea at the time of the
publication, although the design is all well know to anyone now.
Second, it covers the whole of the motivation and the design of
the Internet protocols in detail.
3. Limitations/shortcomings and suggested improvements
First, it does not consider the problems of congestion and
frequencies of retransmission probably because at the time of the
design the author did not even dreamed of the current explosion
of the Internet. Accounting problem is also missing.
Second, it does not mention limitations coming from the superior
inter-networking capability of the Internet protocol design.
The first limitation is the inefficiency due to the layering and
the second is that the protocol provides little guarantee to
its upper part.
4. Relevance today and future
The paper has great relevance to both today's and future work on
the Internet, since they are essentially the same as the current
Internet protocols. However, the scope of the problems perceived
by the author is now limited in the current rapidly changing
Internet user groups, types of services. Therefore, the value of
the paper is getting historical.
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