Re: [tsvwg] plan for L4S issue #29

Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Thu, 01 October 2020 12:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tsvwg] plan for L4S issue #29
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On 01/10/2020 13:13, Pete Heist wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 22:48 +0000, Greg White wrote:
>> In my opinion, Issue 29 can be closed. RFC3168 detection should
>> continue to evolve and should be referenced in the Operational
>> Guidance draft, but fallback should not be required in the
>> experimental protocol drafts for the reasons outlined in Issue 29,
>> and on the mailing list.
> In my opinion, the issues with bottleneck detection and fallback should
> be fixed, since this was the proposed way to provide safety for the
> alternate meaning of CE being introduced.
>
> The question of whether or not to proceed with these issues still open
> sounds like a separate one, but it seems like closing issues without
> fixing them would make it hard for someone who wanted to review and
> understand what issues are still open.
>
> Pete
>
To be clear, is there a "safety" concern with respect to congestion 
collapse from overload, or is it an issue concerning relative fairness 
between flows?

Gorry

Gorry