Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem?
Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Tue, 06 November 2007 00:42 UTC
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MURALI BASHYAM wrote: > Re-posting my response. > > Joe, apologies for mangling your response. > > > The point is that it can be solved in TCP or at the transport layer > ALSO. It CAN. The question is whether it SHOULD be. > It's as good a place > if not better (from the co-ordination point of view and from the sender > state visibility points of view). > Let me ask the question: Can you elaborate the reasons why doing it in > TCP is not a good idea? Basically because it CAN easily be done somewhere else. The recommendation (Clark?) is "think twice before modifying TCP, then don't" comes into play. IMO, that means "don't modify TCP unless you absolutely have to". TCP isn't supposed to be a convenient place to do things. It ought to be lean, so you KNOW it'll work correctly. > "A variety of solutions in a variety of places" is not a good position > to be in, we want the right > solution in the one, correct place, with the least possible disruption > to the server community. The right solution in the right place is a good rule too. I don't think TCP is the right - i.e., best or most appropriate place - to do this. I've noted in other emails that you're making a huge assumption about using TCP for this - that all TCP connections are implemented in a single, shared codebase (i.e., the kernel). They are not; that's not a requirement of TCP. I.e., every reason you have for wanting to do this in TCP is a good reason to do this in the kernel, not TCP. Joe > ----- Original Message ---- > From: MURALI BASHYAM <murali_bashyam@yahoo.com> > To: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>; Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> > Cc: tcpm@ietf.org > Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 3:14:29 PM > Subject: Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> > To: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> > Cc: tcpm@ietf.org > Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 1:27:52 PM > Subject: Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? > > > > > Lloyd Wood wrote: > ... >>> Yes, this is a problem for which a variety of solutions exist, and > for >>> which a coordinated solution would be useful. No, that itself is not >>> justification for assuming TCP is the place to do this. >> try this thought on for size: >> >> "The need for congestion control is a problem for which a variety of >> solutions exist, and for which a coordinated solution would be > useful. > > I should have said "for which a variety of solutions in a variety of > places - OS, application, API, protocol - exist..." > > The primary point is that this isn't owned by communications layers. > > > Joe > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > tcpm mailing list > tcpm@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpm > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
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- RE: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Caitlin Bestler
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
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- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
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- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
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