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A New Way to look at Networking - 1 hour 20 minute video of a talk at Google given by Van Jacobson who is

...best known for his work in IP network performance and scaling; his work redesigning TCP/IP's flow control algorithms to better handle congestion is said to have saved the Internet from collapsing due to traffic in 1988-1989.
This is an incredibly interesting talk with a long and accessible first section that traces the birth and history of packet based network communications. This is the best thing I've seen explaining the birth of the internet.
- jim 5-07-2007 6:26 pm [link] [add a comment]

Cargill's quandry: "Any design problem can be solved by adding an additional level of indirection, except for too many levels of indirection."
- jim 5-06-2007 6:59 pm [link] [add a comment]

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