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

Sounds to me like UUCP. "Mark R. Lindsey" wrote:

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.)