Jim,
I made a private reply to Curtis on his posting earlier this week, and he
gave a nice analysis and cc'd end2end-interest rather than nanog. For
those that don't care to care to read all this, here's the summary:
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I did mention that I didn't mind you forwarding that note.
There was subsequent discussion on the end2end-interest list. I may
be overstating the buffering requirements since the assumption is made
that a high degree of synchronization could occur. This really needs
to be backed up by simulations.
Curtis