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diego001
| Jan. 4th, 2007 08:48 pm Draft! Network Working Group
Request for Comments: xx49
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Pneumatic Tubes
(or, the Stevenstron)
Status of this Memo
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams within message tubes to be transmitted over pneumatic tube networks. This specification is useful within local, wide-area, and metropolitan-area networks. This is an experimental, Congress-approved, but not recommended standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Overview and Rationale
Pneumatic tubes provide high delay, high throughput, and high latency service. Connection topologies, with mechanical switching mechanisms, are possibly unlimited. Only single carriers may be used within a particular point-to-point selection path, but these carriers may carry amounts of data smaller than ten movies streaming across that Internet, depending on the medium used within the particular message tube. Additionally, should more bandwidth than ten movies streaming across that Internet be required of the connection, each carrier may be dumped onto a big truck. The latency of this big truck should not be underestimated; previous literature has established that the bandwidth of a station wagon should never be underestimated. A big truck has an order of magnitude more bandwidth than a station wagon full of tapes, and it can arrive within the same amount of time as a station wagon with a small constant as variance.
Frame Format
The IP datagram may be copied onto a physical format by any method given, including the frame format specified in RFC 1149 to use with avian carriers. It may also be copied onto tapes or specified hard drives with a size smaller than the pneumatic tube message carrier, of size specified by the local network topology. The size and volume of the specific message carrier is to be specified by local policies, although it is encouraged of the local networks to carry larger tubes. After all, I like big tubes and I cannot lie.
Upon receipt, the IP datagram may be scanned or typed (if on paper), or if on magnetic or mass storage mediums, copied onto a device onto the network by the methods peculiar to the datagram's medium. The message-carrier is returned to the source via the very same pneumatic tube.
Discussion
Only two types of services will be provided by this series of tubes: direct delivery by pneumatic tube, or when the packet's latency is larger than the latency of ten movies streaming across that Internet, the message tubes may be dumped onto a big truck and sent to a facility with compatible pneumatic tubes. Delivery solely via pneumatic tube is not affected by any means other than the age of the pneumatic tube. This can easily be prevented by replacing the tubes periodically, or by submitting to the will of Allah, whichever seems easier.
Security
Security is not a problem unless the adversary takes physical control of the land around the series of tubes. In this case, the parties in question will likely have larger problems than securing IP datagram delivery over tubes. Should the parties in question wish it, security can be very easily added to each IP datagram by encrypting the packets. However, most of the time this will not be necessary, or even desirable.2 comments - Leave a comment | |
| Sep. 11th, 2006 07:55 pm Five years ago Five years ago today I was starting sophomore year at BU. There was a fuckup with money and BU so I was living at the Sheraton Hotel for that week. While things were OK with me at that time and I had time to do whatever I wanted there, there was some administrative problem with the folks at the hotel, which was resolved laterly.
Anyhow, I was taking a shower and watching Saved by the Bell (eh, nothing else was on at that time) at around 7 AM in order to get ready for the train trip to my class at 9. I did all that, got dressed from my bags and left the hotel room to walk to Hynes/ICA station, take the B line to BU and go to my first class of the day, thinking it was gonna be a normal day just like any other. I rode the train and got into the building and into the lecture hall about 30 minutes before class started. One of my classmates stopped me and said a plane had struck one of the World Trade Center towers and that it was all over the news. I didn't believe him and thought he was joking.
So... he wasn't.
After a while of wondering and the professor not actually being there, I decided to go along with a group of friends from that class who said 'screw this' to the class and went off to the George Sherman Union to watch the television. Walked there, got into the Back Court (then the smoking lounge at BU), watched the televisions with the building burning.
Boy, he wasn't kidding.
Then I gaped at the television for a while, wondering what had happened, and eventually the second plane struck and I looked at it and one thing came into my mind - I had to call home.
I ran to the telephone bank, got my banking card, dialled home, then the office. Circuits busy, on both sides. I tried holding a half hour - I lasted half as long, but on the third try, I did get hold of mom. Everyone was OK and my sister had the day off on account of the attacks. Mom had apparently not gotten to the office before Manhattan was sealed off.
After that, i pretty much became a passive observer of the 9/11 events - even when the towers fell. I didn't go to class that day and I went back to the hotel - without a network connection or any really good TV (since there was no coverage).
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| Jun. 6th, 2006 01:32 pm Okay, okay, I admit it. I am the antichrist. There. Happy? Current Mood: devious
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| Sep. 17th, 2005 07:34 pm Joshua A. Norton, we hardly knew ye So pretty soon I'm going to declare myself Emperor of New England, a la Emperor Norton I of the United States.
I will need an Imperial Court and officers. The only people elegible are those who live in and/or can visit New England (sorry to everyone else, but we can't have a Tyrant of Salem that doesn't at least visit to tyrannize the population under his control). So far, I have: Possible secular titles in consideration are: Tsar, King, Satrap, Minister, Archduke, Duke, Marquess/Earl, Viscount, Thane, Baron, Freelord, Lord, Tyrant, Dictator. Since I believe in a weak form of caesaropapism, their religious equivalents are: Pope, Patriarch, Archcardinal, Cardinal, Archbishop, Bishop, Monsignor, Signor, Archelder, Elder, Archpriest, Priest, Archdeacon, Deacon. Any of these titles may be combined with any other. These titles aren't hierarchical except by pairs (i.e., a Tsar rules over a King as a Thane rules over a Baron, but a Tsar doesn't rule over a Thane or a Baron and a King doesn't rule over a Thane or a Baron). If you're female, you'll get a female form of the title with all the powers of the male form. I don't believe in the Salic law.
If you're interested in any positions in my shining new Empire (*COUGH!*), comment here or talk to me. I'd be very interested in hearing from you.
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| Jul. 10th, 2005 11:56 pm Best blonde joke ever. Current Mood: sneezy
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| Aug. 9th, 2004 06:06 am Friends' Only Well, it finally happened - my journal has gone Friends' Only.
Leave a comment if you want to be added. Current Mood: awake
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