Re: [arch-d] A Public Option for the Core

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 18-Aug-20 17:26, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> 
> Multiple parallel TCP connections to overcome TCP issues with high
> capacity high loss paths even in the absence of congestion was always
> a bad workaround. 

It's certainly a workaround, but why was it particularly bad? The
context where GridFTP was developed and used was the world of very
high capacity links between major Big Data sites; it's actually a
good example for RFC8799 that we overlooked.

If you really want maximum throughput on such links, which also have
very low bit error rates, you can use a non-windowing, rate-controlled
transport protocol with simplified error handling. But that's not an
IETF problem, really.

> Digital Fountain was already selling software 15 years
> ago with scatter storage and network coding gather retrieval. Still
> network coding researchers  seem to claim this stuff is new today.

The network coding literature goes back to at least 2000**.
The network coding people I know are aiming at a different problem
area today: poor quality wireless and/or overloaded satellite links.
Exactly the opposite of the Big Data scenario. (However, I am not
tracking the NWCRG. I am rather amazed by the lack of references
to the extensive literature in RFC8406, but draft-irtf-nwcrg-nwc-ccn-reqs
does better.)
 
> A lot of of the network side problems of this are the result of the
> traditional, uncontrolled transit SP paths, aka: the classical Internet
> model. 

Indeed. 

Regards
    Brian

** R. Ahlswede, N. Cai, S.-Y.R. Li and R.W. Yeung, “Network
Information Flow”, IEEE-IT, vol. 46, pp. 1204-1216, 2000.
> 
> Cheers
>     Toerless
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:54:34AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 18-Aug-20 04:42, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>> ...
>>  
>>> -> I would like for traffic to get bandwidth share indpendent of the
>>>    number of 5 tuple flows it utilizes (no gaming the system). But
>>>    rather fair per subscriber (weighted by how much the subscriber pays).
>>
>> You just broke GridFTP, used in Big Science to move terabyte datasets
>> around the world efficiently. It's not gaming, it's achieving throughput
>> despite defects in TCP. But the topic is very much alive there, since
>> GridFTP is now unsupported.
>>
>> For further reading:
>> https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/ThirdPartyCopy
>>
>>     Brian
>