Re: [tcpm] More TCP option space in a SYN: draft-briscoe-tcpm-syn-op-sis-02

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 26 September 2014 21:10 UTC

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On 9/26/2014 12:53 PM, John Leslie wrote:
> Bob Briscoe <bob.briscoe@bt.com> wrote:
...
>> BTW, I spend most of my time these days working on a project to 
>> remove latency from protocols.
> 
>    :^)
> 
>    (Can you spell ECN?)

Congestion is only one of a half-dozen fundamental causes of latency, FWIW.

Joe