Re: [aqm] [tcpm] TCP ACK Suppression

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 09 October 2015 22:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [aqm] [tcpm] TCP ACK Suppression
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On 10/9/2015 3:02 PM, 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

Wouldn't it have been cleaner with more appropriate network provisioning?

Why are you blaming TCP?

A DOCSIS router ought to route. If it left the packets alone, IMO we'd
all be better off.

Joe