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	Title		: Congestion Control Principles
	Author(s)	: S. Floyd
	Filename	: draft-floyd-cong-00.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 25-Oct-99
	
The goal of this document is to explain the need for congestion
control in the Internet, and to discuss what constitutes correct
congestion control.  One specific goal is to illustrate the dangers
of neglecting to apply proper congestion control.  A second goal is
to discuss the role of the IETF in standardizing new congestion
control protocols.
This document draws heavily from earlier RFCs, in some cases
reproducing entire sections of the text of earlier documents
[RFC2309, RFC2357].  We have also borrowed heavily from earlier
publications addressing the need for end-to-end congestion control
[FF99].  NOTE:  This internet-draft is a rough first draft intended
for further discussion in the IETF (written or gathered-together just
before the deadline for submitting internet-drafts to the December
IETF).

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