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<P>I agree that, together with IDing the issues SSDT will be tackling, we should characterize how the current (IETF) solutions address them, and why there is more work to do.</P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Murari Sridharan <muraris@microsoft.com><BR>To: Dirceu Cavendish <dirceu_cavendish@yahoo.com>; "iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk" <iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk><BR>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:54:45 PM<BR>Subject: RE: [Iccrg] SSDT Scope<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">I see the confusion in my original mail. I misspoke. I meant to give the two problems that I am aware of of and state some IETF effort in solving each. Quickstart as an example of something that would address problem 1 and some requests that I have seen where customers want to start with a high value of cwnd, and limited slow start as something that would address #2. For connections that never leave slow start, limited slow start is going to slow things further. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Now as part of SSDT motivation, we should agree on what problems we are solving and given there is some prior effort we should also say why these solutions are not sufficient or alternatively may have deployment blockers. </SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I am aware how quickStart helps with Web Service transactions. My question was about how limited slow start helps with that, which was I understood from your previous message...</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Murari Sridharan <muraris@microsoft.com><BR>To: Dirceu Cavendish <dirceu_cavendish@yahoo.com>; "iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk" <iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk><BR>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:31:18 PM<BR>Subject: RE: [Iccrg] SSDT Scope</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'">If i am a web app and i have say some small data to transfer, today in slow start it would take multiple round trips to transfer this data, now say i negotiated a rate with quick start or started with higher cwnd i could complete the transaction faster and be done. I have seen customers complain about this esp when they are on high latency low bandwidth links. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Murari Sridharan <muraris@microsoft.com><BR>To: Dirceu Cavendish <dirceu_cavendish@yahoo.com>; "iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk" <iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk><BR>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:21:18 PM<BR>Subject: RE: [Iccrg] SSDT Scope</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">I have heard two sets of complaints about slow start; one its too slow, in the sense for connections that usually never get out of slow start and are latency sensitive need something faster. Proposals; second is nto really a customer complaint per-se but not good behavior in general, which is that slow start doubles rate before it hits a loss and this overshooting of buffer should be avoided if we can detect it. </SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">Now the first problem is already addressed to some extent by proposals like Limited Slowstart, QuickStart etc . is SSDT</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'">¢</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">s goal to improve those solutions?</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'"><dc> I confess I am a bit confused with your last statement about limited slow start and quickstart as solutions to connections that usually never get out of slow start. How does limited slow start help there? I would understand limited slow start helping the second issue as described above...</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri', 'sans-serif'">I also would rather keep the discussion about what are the current SS issues worthy to work on, rather than to jump into a discussion on possible solutions of issues that potentially are not found worth pursuing them. Also, it may be that we agree that a tangible and hence worth pursuing contribution would be to come-up with a document describing the relevant limitations of SS, as the ICCRG sees it.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On Michael's advise, I am re-sending this message to the ICCRG mailing list.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hello people interested in Slow Start.<BR>The first discussion is about the scope of the SSDT group. A good starting point is to list what people have experienced as incovenient behavior of slow start. Once we agree on what to address, we can scope the objectives/goals of the SSDT group.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- multiple segment losses in high bandwidth delay product networks, when SS opens the cwnd to a large value right before transitioning from SS to CA. This typically causes multiple RTOs...</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Feel free to add yours.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Lachlan Andrew <lachlan.andrew@gmail.com><BR>To: Michael Welzl <michael.welzl@uibk.ac.at><BR>Cc: iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk<BR>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:04:48 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [Iccrg] "Slow Start" design team<BR><BR>Greetings Michael and Lars,<BR><BR>An advantage of separate mailing lists is that it allows people set up<BR>filters for the mail clients. That could also be done by asking<BR>people to put a keyword in their email subjects (like slowstartDT).<BR><BR>FWIW, I'm unlikely to subscribe to the DT mailing lists, but wouldn't<BR>mind extra traffic on iccrg@...<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Lachlan<BR><BR>On 25/03/2008, Michael Welzl <<A href="mailto:michael.welzl@uibk.ac.at" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:michael.welzl@uibk.ac.at">michael.welzl@uibk.ac.at</A>> wrote:<BR>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:05 +0200, Lars Eggert wrote:<BR>> > On 2008-3-25, at
15:54, ext Michael Welzl wrote:<BR>> > > The first concrete proposal on the table is (somewhat<BR>> > > unsurprisingly :) ) a design team on Slow Start,<BR>> > > led by Dirceu himself (which I, not he, suggested).<BR>> > > I think it's a nice start and definitely worth trying.<BR>> ><BR>> > Sounds good.<BR>> ><BR>> > > To join the list, send an email to:<BR>> > > <A href="mailto:iccrg-slowstart-ctl@ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:iccrg-slowstart-ctl@ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp">iccrg-slowstart-ctl@ndrc.kyutech.ac.jp</A><BR>> > > with "subscribe YOUR NAME" as the body of the message.<BR>> ><BR>> > But why does the DT need its own list? It's not like the ICCRG list is<BR>> > flooded with traffic, and having the discussions in the open
seems<BR>> > useful.<BR>><BR>><BR>> ah, that was just an idea ... after all there should be<BR>> multiple design teams with multiple lists one day<BR>><BR>> we could have it all in the open if people want that,<BR>> but it just seems to make things a little more organized<BR>> to me ... dunno, doesn't really matter i suppose<BR>><BR>> cheers<BR>><BR>> michael<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Iccrg mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:Iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:Iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk">Iccrg@cs.ucl.ac.uk</A><BR>> <A href="http://oakham.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/iccrg" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://oakham.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/iccrg</A><BR>><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Lachlan Andrew Dept of Computer Science, Caltech<BR>1200 E California Blvd,
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