[99066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congestion control train-wreck workshop at Stanford: Call for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Sep 3 22:42:02 2007
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:40:58 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
CC: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p06240800c3026667d024@[192.168.3.65]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
John Curran wrote:
> At 9:21 PM -0400 9/3/07, Joe Abley wrote:
>> Is there a groundswell of *operators* who think TCP should be replaced, and believe it can be replaced?
>
> Just imagine *that* switchover, with the same level of
> transition planning as we received with IPv6...
> ;-)
The congestion control mechanism can be replaced independent of the
transport. In point of fact linux systems have been using bic-tcp by
default since 2004 and nobody noticed...
> /John
>
