[Iccrg] "Slow Start" design team

[Michael Welzl]

Dear all,

At the Manchester ICCRG meeting, some concern was raised
about this group being too broad and unable to make
concrete developments. I am against "removing" the breadth,
but still in favor of finding focus for some topics.
At the meeting, Dirceu Cavendish made a suggestion which
both Wes and I are very happy with: to start "design teams",
small temporary (max 1/2 year) groups where concrete things
are developed.

A design team should have a very narrow focus, its own
mailing list, and be led by someone who is willing and
able to push the whole thing along.

The first concrete proposal on the table is (somewhat
unsurprisingly  :)  ) a design team on Slow Start,
led by Dirceu himself (which I, not he, suggested).
I think it's a nice start and definitely worth trying.

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The first question that should be discussed in this
list (not here - let's try and move this discussion there
already) is what exactly the team should focus on:

* enhancements to the end of slow start (like Dirceu
  presented at our meeting)

* different slow start enhancements (like the paper from
  Injong's group at PFLDNet)

* something else?

* is this only about TCP, or also for other protocols?

I would like to leave these decisions up to the team
leader, that's why we should move the discussion there.
If you're interested, please join this list. I just did -
see you there!

Cheers,
Michael