[Iccrg] Heresy recapped

[Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-RCN0)[VZ]]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: iccrg-bounces at cs.ucl.ac.uk 
>[mailto:iccrg-bounces at cs.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lars Eggert
>Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:04 PM
>
>I wouldn't go quite so far and call the current status quo of TCP- 
>friendliness dogmatic; it's mostly what VJ congestion control left us  
>with, and it's sort of a better-than-nothing style of fairness. I do  
>encourage folks to revisit that design choice and discuss 
>whether this  
>type of fairness is what the current and especially future Internet  
>should strive to adhere to, or whether there are alternatives or  
>generalizations that offer more flexibility or "stronger" notions of  
>fairness.


I will just point out that fairness is not a goal of VJ CC; avoiding
packet loss is.

The inputs to VJ CC are "some bytes were not lost" (an ACK) and "some
bytes were probably lost" (an RTO or 3-dupack).  They are not "someone
is sending faster than me" or "I'm sending faster than someone else",
or any other metric or inference useful for acheiving any form of
fairness, because that is not its goal.