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Re: Congestion control train-wreck workshop at Stanford: Call for Demos


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:40:58 -0700


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



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