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<reference anchor='RFC0059'>

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<title>Flow Control - Fixed Versus Demand Allocation</title>
<author initials='E.' surname='Meyer' fullname='Edwin W. Meyer Jr.'>
<organization>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Project MAC</organization></author>
<date month='June' day='27' year='1970' />
<abstract>
<t>The method of flow control described in RFC 54, prior allocation of buffer space by the use of ALL network commands, has one particular advantage. If no more than 100% of an NCP's buffer space is allocated, the situation in which more messages are presented to a HOST then it can handle will never arise.</t>
<t>However, this scheme has very serious disadvantages:</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='59' />
</reference>
