[99073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congestion control train-wreck workshop at Stanford: Call for Demos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Tue Sep 4 09:44:58 2007
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:34:27 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:42:49 +0000
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > Operators are probably more interested in the "fairness" part of
> > "congestion" than the "efficiency" part of "congestion."
>
> TCP's idea of fairness is a bit weird. Shouldn't it be per-user, not
> per-flow?
How would you define "user" in that context?
Stephen
