Re: HTTP/2 and TCP CWND

[Yuchung Cheng <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> On 26/04/2013, at 7:02 PM, Martin Stiemerling <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I'm joining in late and have to second what Lars and other pointed out on that topic in respect of letting TCP do its job.
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>> On 04/15/2013 08:04 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>>> As for my opinion about what to do: I think we should delete this
>>>> TCP congestion window setting from HTTP/2.0.
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>>>> This is as out of scope as I’ve ever seen at the IETF. Modifying
>>>> TCP (by modifying its contract to upper layers such as HTTP, and by
>>>> modifying its state machine) is not something that can be done
>>>> outside of the Transport Area. I’m cc-ing Lars Eggert and Martin
>>>> Stiemerling (former and current Transport ADs), in case they have
>>>> additional comments or clarifications.
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>>> I'd love to hear what Transport folks have to say on-list.
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>>> I've also been talking with the Martin about having more Transport
>>> cross-fertilisation; we're hoping to spend some time on discussing
>>> relevant issues in Berlin.
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>> I wonder if we should have a HTTPbis presentation and discussion of the issue the HTTPbis WG faces to the TCPM group at the IETF in Berlin, sort of a joint session?

As long as the transport and http-bis started talking, that'd be a
great idea. So either is fine.

I also think some problems are beyond TCPM and should be discussed in
tsv-area. Today the congestion is often caused by connection
parallelism but that's not TCP's job to handle that. In HTTP/2 such a
problem still exist if the page contains resources from different
hosts.

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> Makes sense to me. I'm happy to give some time in the HTTPbis session to this, or we could schedule a separate joint meeting.
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> Cheers,
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> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
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