RE: Large-datagram hop-by-hop delivery mechanism

["Mohler, Jeff" <jeff.mohler () wilcom com>]

> I am seeking a mechanism for reliable delivery of large blobs through a
> network of occasionally-connected hosts that can forward the blobs using
> available transport protocols.
>
> I can't find it, though. Most of the networking materials I can find
> deal more with immediate-transmission networks, where the destination
> host is reachable at the instant that the source host transmits. (This
> isn't a catenet.)
>
> If anyone knows of such a common or standardized system, please drop me
> a note. 

sounds to me like email, where the sending host tries again and again
over a defined period of time to delivery data.  no?
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Or (God help us) UUCP if scheduling is a factor.