Re: [pim] Q on the congestion awareness of routing protocols

Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com> Tue, 06 December 2022 20:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pim] Q on the congestion awareness of routing protocols
From: Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 12:54:57 -0800
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> path exploration? but consider the shadow pricing...

Just something semi-formal where we can meet regularly. But first, please lets articuulate the problem very clearly. And bring operators in so they can confirm the problem that researchers are stating are real problems that need solving.

> the tradeoff between convergence rate and congestion control seems to
> be something that ought to be put on a more systematic grounding

Agree.

Dino