Re: [EToSat] New Version Notification for draft-kuhn-quic-4-sat-04.txt

[Jeremy Harris <[e-mail]>]

On 24/04/2020 00:26, Christian Huitema wrote:
> I also have a puzzling question regarding the purpose of the tests. The
> TCP Eval draft follows the classic approach that Internet stability
> depends on well behaved transports, and that this good behavior should
> be documented by a large battery of tests. I got some fairly consistent
> feedback last year, after worrying that free wheeling innovation in
> transport protocols might end up having bad consequences for the
> Internet. A number of distinguished colleagues lined up at the mic and
> explained that my fears were exaggerated, that the Internet was very
> robust, and that I should not worry. So, which is which? Should I worry
> about consequences for others, or is selfishness OK?

Those distinguished colleagues have forgotten, or weren't around,
for the congestion-collapse phase of the Internet (around 1990?)
which drove the development of congestion control.

We only have robustness because of such consideration.  Selfishness
is not ok.
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Cheers,
  Jeremy