Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem?
Chandrashekhar Appanna <achandra@cisco.com> Wed, 21 November 2007 00:46 UTC
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:44:27 -0800
From: Chandrashekhar Appanna <achandra@cisco.com>
To: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
Subject: Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem?
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 04:01:21PM -0800, Joe Touch wrote: > > > Lloyd Wood wrote: > > At Tuesday 20/11/2007 07:12 -0500, Mark Allman wrote: > > > >>> Why does congestion control require standardization, when every > >>> client/server application out there is perfectly capable of doing it? > >>> To achieve consistent behaviour across the widest range of > >>> applications... > >> I think this is a complete mis-characterization. The answer is that > >> congestion control is standardized because congestion control is about > >> dealing with a *shared resource*. We can do that control from a number > >> of places in the stack and people have advocated for each of them at > >> different points. But, *where* that functionality exists is a second > >> question after we establish that the functionality needs to exist and we > >> need to standardize on it. This persist business is not about > >> controlling a shared resource, but about controlling a *local > >> resource*. Why should the community standardize local resource control? > > > > The community standardised TCP window size advertisements. That's a local resource control issue, surely? > > That's something you have to tell the other end, i.e., it requires a > change to the protocol on the wire. This one can be implemented without > any change to the protocol at all - entirely at the app layer. > And I think the authors are positioning that there is a better place in the architecture to solve this and that is in tcp. I think it is boiling down to just a matter of opinions so far.. esp when you keep repeating that it could be solved in the app layer (for as long as I recall!!) > >> That seems absurd to me. So, to me, arguing about where to mitigate the > >> persist stuff is putting the cart before the horse. First, we'd need to > >> establish some reason to standardize local resource control. > > > > because it's useful? > > Useful is a fine metric for a new protocol, not for mucking with such a > ubiquitous and established one unnecessarily, IMO. > I do not understand that line of reasoning at all.. I think the point was that it could be useful to tcp.. not to some new protocol. I think the discussion has to be around that point only.. last I checked this was the tcp m mailing list. - Chandra. > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > tcpm mailing list > tcpm@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpm _______________________________________________ tcpm mailing list tcpm@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpm
- [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
- 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
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Florian Weimer
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? John Heffner
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? speakeasy
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Lloyd Wood
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- 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? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ted Faber
- RE: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Caitlin Bestler
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? John Heffner
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mark Allman
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mark Allman
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mark Allman
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? MURALI BASHYAM
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mark Allman
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Lloyd Wood
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mark Allman
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Chandrashekhar Appanna
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Chandrashekhar Appanna
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mark Allman
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Lloyd Wood
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Lloyd Wood
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Lloyd Wood
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Jakob Heitz
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ethan Blanton
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Chandrashekhar Appanna
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ted Faber
- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Ted Faber
- Summary of responses so far and proposal moving f… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… John Heffner
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- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
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- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mahesh Jethanandani
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
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- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- RE: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Anantha Ramaiah (ananth)
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mark Allman
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mark Allman
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mark Allman
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mark Allman
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mark Allman
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… John Heffner
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Ted Faber
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Lloyd Wood
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Mahesh Jethanandani
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Lloyd Wood
- Re: Summary of responses so far and proposal movi… Joe Touch
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- Re: [tcpm] Is this a problem? Mahesh Jethanandani
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