Re: [re-ECN] contribution to congestion = congestion-volume

I quite like "contribution to congestion", but it would be nice to make
it clearer that this is something that can actually be measured. I would
also like somewhere to get across to people that this is something that
impacts everyone on the network, sort of "impact on others".

The one thing I am very keen to avoid is equating this to CO2 since the
whole point of congestion is that it is transitory - once the traffic
goes so does the congestion...

Toby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: re-ecn-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:re-ecn-bounces@ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of Bob Briscoe
> Sent: 01 October 2009 11:13
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> Subject: [re-ECN] contribution to congestion = congestion-volume
> 
> Folks,
> 
> How about this for useful non-technical phrase for congestion-volume
> that encapsulates its meaning: "contribution to congestion".
> 
> The subject of the sentence needs to be included to disambiguate it,
> but it can be used for either of the dual uses of congestion-volume:
> - too much traffic: app, user, customer, site or network from which
> traffic arrives;
> - too little capacity: link or network in which congestion occurs.
> And the duration over which it is measured needs to be given.
> 
> It's important to distinguish congestion [%] from contribution to
> congestion [byte], not least because they have different units.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
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> Bob Briscoe,                                BT Innovate & Design
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