Blown to Bits Appendix/Ch.3 Reflection (Homework- 10/11/17)

Day 3: Packets and redundancy

Homework due Wednesday, Oct 11:
  • Blown to Bits (www.bitsbook.com), Appendix - The Internet as System and Spirit, pp. 301-309, “The Internet as a Communication System,” then answer the following question:
    1. It is interesting to think about the foresight (or luck?) that caused initial Internet designers to choose a packet-switched network as the basis for the Internet. What do you think, foresight or luck?
    2. Blown to Bits (www.bitsbook.com), Chapter 3 - Ghosts in the Machine, pp. 91-92, “Data Formats as Public Property,” then answer the following question:
    3. What do you think the Internet would be like today if different companies’ network protocols were still competing for adoption for the Internet, instead of TCP being the de facto standard?

Blown to Bits Ch.3 Reflection- (by Josh Lim)
  1. I believe it is foresight because they were not fully aware on their issues at the time. The designers from the experiments would have trouble understanding what is going on since every step forward is brand new and unique in computers. Now with the internet modernized and fixed, they were able to correct their mistakes in the past and probably proposed a reasonable protocol.
  2. The internet would be then unorganized with information out of place everywhere due to the TCP not sorting out the information across the Internet. The internet would work like a huge Rubik’s cube and people would need to consider which segment of information goes where. This would be unreliable because information would be inaccurate and be dropped frequently without TCP.

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