Re: [aqm] [tcpm] TCP ACK Suppression

David Lang <david@lang.hm> Mon, 12 October 2015 16:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [aqm] [tcpm] TCP ACK Suppression
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Greg White wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/9/15, 2:04 PM, "Mark Allman" <mallman@icir.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 1) *you* shouldn't be using a mechanism that destroys information for
>>>> others
>>>> 2) *you* don't know where your mechanism will have an impact
>>>> 3) you claim this might be safe *if* AQM is widely deployed
>>> 
>>> tl;dr summary: myopia is why we can't have nice things
>> 
>> Too true.  DOCSIS would have been much cleaner if we didn't have to deal
>> with the fallout from the myopic TCP designers.  :-P
>
> So I agree that most likely, it's beneficial to have fewer ACKs.
>
> What I think people arguing against this practice are these kinds of issues:
>
> http://blog.dan.drown.org/sb6183-dropping-ipv6-traffic/
>
> I don't think there is a solution that we all can agree on, all approaches 
> have their benefits and drawbacks. I think the above article just shows how 
> things can go wrong in very subtle ways.

no question that things can go wrong in subtle ways. If network protocol design 
was easy, we would have had a couple protocols designed back in the early days 
of computing and there wouldn't be the recent rash of new protocol designs :-)

But too much fear that "something may go wrong somewhere" can prevent any 
progress.

David Lang