Re: [Pppext] Suggesting Improvements in RFC 1990.

[James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>]

Karl Fox writes:
> If someone were to ask me (which they haven't), I'd say leave RFC  
> 1990 alone unless you fix it.  By "fixing it" I mean combining two  
> links, each with probability of failure p, and providing a combined  
> link with probability of failure p^2 rather than 2p as RFC 1990 does.

If you mean on a packet-by-packet basis, then p^2 sounds like "path
protection" (replication at the sender and discarding duplicates at
the receiver).  That's rather different from what the original goal
seemed to be, and likely wouldn't fit many (if any) of the existing
uses of MP.

If you mean on a link basis, then I don't think such a fix is needed.
It's a matter of implementation.

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