[ih] Why was hop by hop flow control eventually abandonded?

[brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com (Brian E Carpenter)]

On 17/07/2013 05:35, John Kristoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Detlef Bosau wrote:
> 
>> The more I think about it, the more I fear, that although the decision
>> to abandon hop by hop flow control

Could somebody who was there at the time comment on whether the e2e
argument (in its 1984 Saltzer et al form) was already part of the
discussion then, or if it was a post hoc argument?

    Brian