[Iccrg] Heresy recapped

[Matt Mathis]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, S. Keshav wrote:

> Matt,
> 	The paradigm holds sway only in the minds of academia. I think (based 
> almost purely on cynicism), that in the real world TCP friendliness never had 
> a chance. There is a long history of TCP accelerators, multi-connection 
> applications, UDP-blasters, packet classifiers-and-delayers, and who knows 
> what else that have never cared about it. So, why do we need to phase it out?

I would tend to agree.  However, isn't this list supposed to represent 
academia?

> Its already a done deal.

Not in TCPM, TSVWG, etc, where dogmatic attachment to TCP-friendly is probably 
hurting the IETF.  This is where we need to change minds and some deeply 
entrenched documents.

I think the ADs are probably listening - do they have any commemts?

Thanks,
--MM--