Re: [tsvwg] path forward on L4S issue #16

Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> Wed, 10 June 2020 12:58 UTC

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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] path forward on L4S issue #16
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> On 10 Jun, 2020, at 11:35 am, Ingemar Johansson S <ingemar.s.johansson@ericsson.com> wrote:
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> 1) How widely are  RFC3168 ECN capable AQMs deployed _and_ enabled ?

Enough for the effects to be visible on about 0.1-1.0% of current Internet traffic - and rising steadily.  That's some combination of endpoints negotiating ECN support, and middleboxes implementing an AQM, but not necessarily both on the same path.  Deployment of ECN-enabled AQM is very high across a small number of forward-thinking ISPs, including a very large one in France and a major one in Norway.

Basically every endpoint out there today implements RFC-3168 ECN, and every Linux endpoint runs an ECN-enabled AQM by default on each Ethernet interface.  If Linux and/or Microsoft had decided to switch it on by default a decade ago, rather than hiding it behind a non-default configuration flag, we would not be having this conversation, because the deployment numbers would be too big and obvious to ignore.  It's been a long, slow chicken-and-egg situation which the major consumer ISPs have essentially refused to help resolve.

But now there are commercial, off-the-shelf CPE products which anyone can buy and install, and which implement the sort of bufferbloat mitigation measures that most ISPs have not.  I've found at least one of those on the physical retail shelf, here in Finland.  I don't have sales numbers, but they must account for most of the deployment on ISPs that haven't deployed it themselves.

> 2) If they are deployed _and_ enabled, can/will they be updated ?

Some can and will.  But some is baked in hardware so would be difficult to update, and some is managed by people/vendors who do not know or care about L4S, so would tend to keep using the old system which is RFC-compliant today.  When was the last time your CPE devices got a firmware update?  So L4S has to be able to cope with the existence of such deployments in at least the medium term.

Frankly, if you believe that tunnels are an intractable problem, then this is just as bad.  So please finally drop this argument; you're not convincing anyone who matters.

 - Jonathan Morton