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Re: [re-ECN] Pls bash: Congestion Exposure (re-ECN) BoF inHiroshima?

Bob Briscoe <rbriscoe@jungle.bt.co.uk> Thu, 10 September 2009 04:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [re-ECN] Pls bash: Congestion Exposure (re-ECN) BoF inHiroshima?
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Toby,

At 10:01 09/09/2009, toby.moncaster@bt.com wrote:
>Further, end-hosts have means to "game the system" to increase their 
>access to capacity, and to progress communications even in the 
>presence of persistent congestion. As a consequence ISPs feel they 
>have to police "heavy users" to free up resources for the bulk of 
>their customers. This involves making assumptions about the wishes 
>of their customers which in turn is eroding trust between ISPs, 
>customers, content providers and application writers.

I don't like the implication here that end-hosts game the system. 
It's mostly innocent use of the tools provided (e.g. TCP) that 
developers just assume sort out fair usage.


Bob


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Bob Briscoe,               Networks Research Centre, BT Research

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