[80267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Apr 27 16:59:22 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:58:50 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504271233460.12807-100000@sasami.anime.net> (Dan
Hollis's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:11:26 -0700 (PDT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Dan Hollis:
> And there are so many IWF that applying enough cluebats to clear the path
> for ECN is going to take enormous effort.
ECN favors non-conformant endpoints. Therefore, it won't help you in
the long run if the congestion is on a path which is shared by
multiple customers. Popular file sharing software will just set the
proper flags to decrease the discard probability, just like Netscape
opened multiple HTTP connections to the same server.
