[Iccrg] Incentives for ECN

[John Leslie]

Lachlan Andrew <lachlan.andrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 July 2011 04:13, Dirceu Cavendish <dirceu_cavendish at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> And BTW, imho, ECNs being treated as loss at end-points may present a
>> dis-incentive for end-points to react to ECNs at all, since the CA designer
>> may find cwnd exponential decrease too drastic a measure to be taken when
>> receiving ECNs.
> 
> I'm not sure that I understand this.  If ECNs are treated as loss at
> end-points, then they are reacted to.  Do you mean that you think it
> would be sensible to allow a CA designer to specify a milder form of
> back-off when ECN is received?  If so, I entirely agree.

   (In case I wasn't clear enough, I was suggesting research using the
"same" backoff but a quicker recovery.)

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John Leslie <john at jlc.net>