Re: [ledbat] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion-08.txt

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Mon, 10 October 2011 17:46 UTC

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On 10/10/2011 9:46 AM, Mirja Kuehlewind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wouldn't want to refer to TCP's value because of a less-than-best-effort
> traffic there might always be a motivation to take different/lower values
> than TCP.

The values currently suggested are TCP's current values. I don't mind if 
you want to pick smaller ones, but I'd suggest spec'ing them relative to 
TCP's current values regardless.

Joe

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> Mirja
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>
> On Monday 10 October 2011 16:37:31 Joe Touch wrote:
>> On 10/9/2011 4:51 PM, Janardhan Iyengar wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> A new version of the congestion control draft is in the repository.
>>> There are two major mods in this revision:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> 2/ We have set the values for INIT_CWND to 4 and MIN_CWND to 2, and have
>>> clarified the discussion of CURRENT_DELAYS and INIT_CWND/MIN_CWND in
>>> Section 3.5.
>>
>> It might be more stable to refer to TCP's INIT_CWND and MIN_CWND values,
>> i.e., that ledbat should use TCP's values for these.
>>
>> (they've been under discussion for revision in TCPM, FWIW)
>>
>> Joe
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