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Re: [aqm] ACK Suppression

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 08 October 2015 21:27 UTC

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On 10/7/2015 2:12 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:00 PM, dpreed@reed.com wrote:
> 
>> That's the real engineering challenge.  Modularity is your friend when engineering 
>> large systems with very broad requirements.  Focusing on a very narrow issue, especially 
>> one that assumes way too much about what should be allowed and what traffic "must" 
>> look like, misses the point.
> 
> This ACK thinning "optimization" obviously does not work with encrypted transports like QUIC.

Nor would it work with TCP-AO.

Joe

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