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


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:09:52 +0100


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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