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                        WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

**NOTE** to self: Never engage Mark [1] in a converstaion about TCP/IP.

According to Mark, TCP/IP is **WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG** (did I get the
correct number there, Mark?). No attempt at error recovery, much less error
detection. And it has no flow control. And it seems to exhibit poor behavior
across multiple slow links (i.e. from my house to his house).

Mark has experience with telephony protocols, which include things like error
detection, error recovery, retransmission, duplication detection, flow
control and a dozen other features that the designers of TCP/IP either left
out or left to higher level protocols.

Amazingly enough, Mark actually likes the OSI Seven Layer Burrito™ protocol
model.

Other **NOTE** to self: Don't even bring up the higher level protocols like
SMTP or HTTP with Mark.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/

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