Re: [re-ECN] FW: ConEx BoF announcement text

[João Taveira Araújo <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Here goes an attempt at making this paragraph a little less confusing by 
splitting it in two and a bit of rephrasing. The last sentence is still 
a little confusing though.

Leslie Daigle wrote:
> <on the wiki, to be replaced:>
> The Internet is, in essence, about pooling resources. The ability to 
> share capacity has been paramount to its success and has traditionally 
> been managed through the voluntary use of TCP congestion control. 
> However, TCP alone is unable to prevent bandwidth intensive 
> applications, such as peer-to-peer or streaming video, from causing 
> enough congestion over time to severely limit the user-experience of 
> many other users. This has led ISPs to deploy ad-hoc solutions such as 
> volume accounting, rate policing and deep packet inspection in an 
> attempt to distribute capacity differently. The consequences of such 
> practices are increasingly leading to calls for government regulations 
> and stifling innovation at the transport and application layer (see 
> for example, the problem statement I-D (ref below) and RFC5594).
> </on the wiki>

<my attempt>
However, TCP alone provides neither the means nor the incentives for 
applications to limit the congestion they inflict on others, resulting in a
troubled coexistence between applications with differing needs.  High 
traffic applications, such as peer-to-peer or streaming video, are 
unable or unwilling to restrain themselves from causing enough 
congestion over time to severely limit the user-experience of many other 
users.

This has led ISPs to deploy ad-hoc solutions such as volume accounting, 
rate policing and deep packet inspection in an attempt to distribute 
capacity differently.  Such practices ostracize an entire class of 
applications for simply attempting to pool available capacity, 
consequently stifling innovation at the transport and application layer, 
as well as increasingly leading to calls for government regulations (see 
for example, the problem statement I-D (ref below) and RFC5594).
</my attempt>

Cheers,
Joao