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Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Tue, 05 March 2013 00:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)
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Bob Braden wrote:
> On 3/4/2013 10:20 AM, Roger Jørgensen wrote:
> > I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an 
> > educational way - Why is congestion control so important? And where 
> > does it apply? ... :-) 
> 
> Ouch. Because without it (as we learned the hard way in the late 1980s) \
> the Internet may collapse and provide essentially no service.
 
It is PR like this one:

  http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2013/20130129-02.html

That gets me worried about folks might try to "fix" the internet
mostly due to the fact that they really haven't understood what
is already there any why.

-Martin

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