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[Quoting Archie Cobbs, I think:]

>> There is probably a good paper somewhere outlining the "best effort"
>> philosophy but I don't know what it is.

That would be ``End-to-End Arguments in System Design'' by Jerry
Saltzer, Dave Reed, and Dave Clark, one of the most influential papers
ever written on the topic of network protocol architecture.  See
<http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/83743.html> for more details.

-GAWollman


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