[Iccrg] "Slow Start" design team

[Michael Welzl]

Hi all,

Based on the comments recently received, I'm in favor of sticking
with the original plan, of using a separate mailing list.

- and I also agree that the scope discussion should take
place here - but just this one.

Cheers,
Michael


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:14 -0700, Dirceu Cavendish wrote:
> I believe that a mailing list could facilitate the "narrowness" of the
> work to be done about a given topic. Having all the work open to a
> wider audience the people committed to doing the work might dilute the
> efforts, pulling threads in many directions. Of course everyone in
> ICCRG may join the list, so the DT structure could degenerate into a
> full ICCRG group participation. But the idea of a DT is to allow QUICK
> progress towards a narrow goal.
> Having a wider discussion about potentially every step of the work
> does not sound a good strategy to me.
> 
> My proposal then would be to discuss the SCOPE of the SS DT within
> ICCRG mailing list, and then move to a SSDT mailing list for the bulk
> of the work...Is there a good compromise between people on both sides
> of the aisle?
> 
> I also wish to clarify that I would be "facilitating" the DT, not
> leading it :-)
> Dirceu
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Leslie <john at jlc.net>
> To: Michael Welzl <michael.welzl at uibk.ac.at>
> Cc: iccrg at cs.ucl.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:05:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Iccrg] "Slow Start" design team
> 
> Michael Welzl <michael.welzl at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
>   Agreed.
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > To join the list, send an email to:
> > iccrg-slowstart-ctl at ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp
> > with "subscribe YOUR NAME" as the body of the message.
> 
>   I'm not sure a Design Team should be quite that open,
> though I'd certainly welcome frequent interaction with the
> main iccrg list.
> 
>   In any case, I'm holding off on joining that list...
> 
> > 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?
> 
>   I strongly recommend nailing down the problem that
> Slow-Start is supposed to solve. Without firm agreement
> on that, I'm afraid we'll get a random-walk problem.
> 
> > * is this only about TCP, or also for other protocols?
> 
>   That might be the wrong question. We should start with
> a description of what we're trying to fix; then work on
> whether fixing it within TCP is even the right place to
> start.
> 
> --
> John Leslie <john at jlc.net>
> 
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