SLIP or PPP instead of G proto (Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <37222 at apple.Apple.COM> fair at Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>Peter, what you describe is the same (functionally) as UUCP is now. If
>you're not going to use it interactively, why bother to "connect" over
>a dialup link with IP?

Apart from the potential for interoperability, which Peter has already
mentioned, there is the not-inconsequential issue of using a protocol
which is *documented* (in a complete, accurate, and redistributable way).
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