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Re: update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon Sep 29 02:16:25 2014

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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:14:23 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 9/29/2014 00:32, Pete Carah wrote:
> For that matter, has the*specification*  of tcp/ip been proven to be
> "correct" in any complete way?

I find that question in this forum really confusing.

I thought all of the RFC-descriptions of protocols were taken to be 
statements that "if you do it this way, we think we can inter-operate" 
but at no time to be taken as "right" or "wrong".
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