[Iccrg] Re: [tcpm] Review of draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv-03

[Yuchung Cheng]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Joe Touch <touch at isi.edu> wrote:
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> On 7/16/2012 4:10 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
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>> On 7/16/2012 3:56 PM, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
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>>> Summary:
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>>> First of all the problem this draft is trying to solve is important:
>>> AFAIK servers and data-centers disable slow-start after idle because
>>> it simply hurts latency too badly.
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>> If they're mostly doing HTTP, it shouldn't matter at all. HTTP's
>> transaction pattern defeats slow-start after idle anyway.
Why not if the interval between two HTTP responses are large, say two minutes?
Your draft below suggested receiving HTTP requests have some effects but
I didn't see that in RFC 2861 (and I couldn't find the mailing list discussion
cited either).

Could you provide an example? Thanks.

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>> Joe
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> PS - we did try to deal with this issue a decade ago, but the effort was not
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> http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/draft-hughes-restart-00.txt
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> Joe
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