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Only an idiot would design a device to assume no packet loss, unless they were _also_ allowed to design the network. If you buy such a device and put it on a janky power network, then you have only yourself to blame.

Standards decisions should never be made to accommodate designers that want to assume there's effectively no packet loss.

Some degree of error correction is totally reasonable, but your first point is irrelevant to discussion.



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