Comment by ryao
If your doctor says you have only 128 days to live, you count down, not up. TTL is time to live, which is the same thing.
If your doctor says you have only 128 days to live, you count down, not up. TTL is time to live, which is the same thing.
Although, more accurately it's like "transmissions to live" since it doesn't have anything to do with time, regardless of its original naming.