[11332] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Tue Mar 29 11:49:46 1994
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 17:57:01 -0800
To: Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Cc: com-priv@lists.psi.com
At 11:36 AM 3/28/94 -0500, Christopher Davis wrote:
>Jim Thompson's point, that the data being served--not the protocol--is the
>problem is correct. No matter how wonderful the sliding windows, there's
>no way to feed an 800K ulaw file down a V.32bis modem in a reasonable
>amount of time. However, a 20K HTML file will take very little time (and
>probably compress pretty well over V.42bis also).
When I used the term 'protocol' I was not referring soley to telecom
protocol, but also to how the structures etc. are designed and developed
that allow one to develop links, etc. --- ie. the large "protocol" or spec
that defines uses of Mosaic.
If there is so much manual intervention required to set up an efficient
http package, then it was not well designed for this use. ie., it works,
but everything's not a nail... :-)
A well designed piece of software for such applications would take into
account varying bandwidths, etc. and come up with automatic ways to either
make the task much easier (so people would be inclined to use those tools),
or automatic ways that DO it for you (so that once an http package was
defined, it would work very well automatically on low speed lines).
Considering that U of I is a supercomputer center, I would guess that low
speed lines (ie. anything less than 56kb) were of absolutely no concern.
---
Glenn Tenney
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