[lwip-users] [lwip] Interesting paper

[Adam Dunkels]

Hi all!

Some time ago I found a paper that should be of interest to the folks here. 
It is called "Connecting Absolutely Everything" and can be found at the IPSIL 
company's website [http://www.ipsil.com/resources/whitepapers.htm]. It is 
only a few pages long but still worth a read. The paper is written by H. 
Shrikumar, the creator of the (at the time) world's smallest iPic web server 
[http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html] and founder of the IPSIL 
company. 

In his paper, he argues for connecting even the smallest devices to the 
Internet. He also brings up the end-to-end argument has one of the strong 
arguments for networked devices to run a full TCP/IP implementation instead 
of relying on propriatary proxies and/or protocol converters. Finally, the 
importance of correctness of TCP implementation is stressed; millions of 
Internet enabled devices absolutely *have* to be good network citizens or the 
Internet may very well collapse (again).

/adam
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Adam Dunkels <address@hidden>
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