[re-ECN] Comments on "congestion exposure problem" document

"Ingemar Johansson S" <ingemar.s.johansson@ericsson.com> Wed, 30 September 2009 06:48 UTC

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Hi

I read through the latest "congestion exposure problem" document 

A few comments:

Section 5.1, last sentence in first para: "The main effect of this has been that users now routinely see their network connections running slow in the evenings"
>From a laymans perspective I can probably agree with this, I experience it every now than then when I "surf the internet" from home. I have however not been able to determine for sure if the problem is in the network or in the webservers. I would believe that a reference to scientific paper or mailing list discussion or whatever that describes this problem would be beneficial.

Section 6 (Use cases):
Maybe obvious (and maybe does not fit into the use cases) but as I see it the future results of this WG would be to provide mainly the operators with at least one of the tools necessary to give e.g content providers and application developers a sustainable "carrot and whip" offer. "Make your traffic behave according to these rules and you're granted access to our network".  
I have no opinion regarding what kinds of traffic this would include, I guess time will tell, but the main task for the WG should be to provide with one important item to the "carrot and whip" toolbox. 

Regards
/Ingemar
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