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Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?


From: Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 09:00:10 -0700

It was intended to detect congestion. The obvious response was in some way to pace the sender(s) so that it was 
alleviated.

Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways...

On Sep 7, 2023, at 11:19 PM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:



On 9/7/23 09:51, Saku Ytti wrote:

Perhaps if congestion control used latency or FEC instead of loss, we
could tolerate reordering while not underperforming under loss, but
I'm sure in decades following that decision we'd learn new ways how we
don't understand any of this.

Isn't this partly what ECN was meant for? It's so old I barely remember what it was meant to solve :-).

Mark.


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