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-- Main.DonaldActon - 09 May 2011

One possible way to organize the course is to break it down into a collection of modules of about a week. Each module will some number of the following associated with it 
    * A set of learning outcomes
    * Readings/videos
    * Class activities
    * Assignments, homework
    * Assessment mechanisms 


A list of possible modules (sub-bullets are hints at what the main bullet might cover) :
   * Bandwidth and Latency
   * The Networking  API
   * Making something reliable
      * timeouts
      * recovery mechanisms
      * protocol levels where this could be done
         * TCP/IP
         * Application level
   * Ordering
      * Bare wire
      * Reordering
      * Role/use of UDP
      * How is ordering achieved, 
   * Internet Structure
      * IPv6
      * network of networks
      * DNS
      * ping
      * traceroute
      * wireshark
      * ARP/MAC addresses
   * Naming/Discovery
   * Stream vs Messages
   * P2P
Topic revision: r1 - 2011-05-09 - DonaldActon
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