[99074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congestion control train-wreck workshop at Stanford: Call for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Sep 4 10:12:14 2007
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:09:52 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200709041342.l84Dgnm7014541@nb.tech.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Tony Finch wrote:
> > 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?
Given that we're trusting the user's OS to implement congestion control,
it seems reasonable to trust it to define per-user in a sensible way.
Tony.
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