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

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 06 March 2013 09:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport AreaDirector)
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On 06/03/2013 08:36, t.p. wrote:
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> Interesting, there is more life in Congestion Control than I might have
> thought.  But it begs the question, is this something that the IETF
> should be involved with or is it better handled by those who are
> developping LTE etc?  

>From the little I know about TCP proxies, they are horrible beasts
that can impact application layer semantics. Figuring out how to deal
with mixed e2e paths (partly lossy, partly congested) seems to me
very much an IRTF/IETF topic, even if we don't have an AD who is
a subject matter expert.

   Brian

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