[26923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Definition of Congestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jan 30 03:37:28 2000
Date: 30 Jan 2000 00:35:18 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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The spooks have been working overtime, the NSA spent $1.5 million dollars
this week recovering from a computer failure starting Monday. It was restored
on Thursday, just about the time people started reporting strange problems
on the Internet. Concidence?
But on a more serious note. Alan used the word "congestion" in one of
his messages. Congestion doesn't seem to have a very strict definition.
It covers everything from a multi-week service interruption, to a dropped
packet which triggers slow-start.
Should the Internet follow the nuclear and power industry and come up with
a set of standarized terms for different degrees of events: blackout, brownout,
flicker, etc. Or follow the telecommunication industry which uses a single
word, congestion, for most problems.
