[aprssig] More digis are changing to the new paradigm
    Robert Bruninga 
    bruninga at usna.edu
       
    Tue Jul  5 09:27:10 EDT 2005
    
    
  
>I think for any next-generation APRS network, 
>the "digis" should be smart enough to adapt to 
>network load and allow packets to be repeated 
>as many times as the load will allow...
This will guarantee several things:
1) the sender will have no idea how far his packets will go
2) the network will always be 100% busy with routine
     lights-are-on-noone-home packets doing nothing
3) The user that needs to get packets from A to B cannot
4) The priority user with a LIVE immediate need cannot
communicate any better than a home station with non
moving beacons.  And he wont have any clue if the system
will deliver his packets too where they need to go right-now.
5) The network becomes completely indeterminant.
6) The network is extremely dependent on sysop-hands
on-tweaking to do anyting other than "routine".  And
experience shows that getting a SYSOP to make real
time changes in some areas takes not just hours, but
months.
Good luck.
de Wb4APR, Bob
    
    
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