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RFC 1149: I believe there has been some recent work on a proposed...

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Comment by Goresh
Submitted on 7/13/2005
Related RFC: RFC 1149
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I believe there has been some recent work on a proposed amendment to RFC1149 that would allow modification of the link layer by subtitution of the current paper based link layer with solid state memory cards. Given the vastly increased packet size this allows, a boost from at most a couple of k to over 4 GB with very little impact on transmission speed, this would appear to be a worthwhile gain and I feel the IEEE and other standards bodies should be approached immediately to get the standard ratified.Recent testa in Israel by Dr Yossi Vardi, Ami Ben-Bassat and Guy Vardi achieved an average throughput of 2.27Mbit/sec with there test set up of three carrier pigeons each carrying a 4Gb card over a distance of 100km from Ohalo to Ramat Hasharon. There is still unfortunately considerable variation between links with transmission times of 2hrs 17min, 3hr 15min, and 4hrs 51min measured respectively from each carrier.It is proposed that this new protocol be named TCP/MC ie Transport via Carrier Pigeon via Memory Card.

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