[99075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congestion control train-wreck workshop at Stanford: Call for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Sep 4 10:32:27 2007
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:30:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
cc: 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:
>>> 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?
Operators always define the "user" as the person paying the bill. One
bill, one user.
Its fun to watch network engineers' heads explode.
