[As WG member]

I like the start these drafts are making, I have a few thoughts.

- I think its worthwhile work and as a WG we should end up adopting a draft or 
drafts that try to solve the problem.
- Congestion control is hard, and a very well studied problem, as such whatever 
we end up should reference prior-art to justify it's claims.
- Data, whatever solution we end up with needs to have data to back up it's 
claims.

** draft-ginsberg-lsr-isis-flooding-scale

Having just recently offered a, "CC algorithm is local so we aren't specifying 
it", in some unrelated work, I discovered (correctly so) that it was not sufficient 
(see [*] for the resulting changes if curious). One needs to provide (doesn't need to be 
normative) a working algorithm to prove that the protocol is providing enough information 
to the transmitter to actually implement a viable CC algorithm.

Now draft-ginsberg does suggest an algorithm, however only for P2P. We need to 
address LAN as well. This also needs references on how this algorithm relates 
to existing studied work, and perhaps most importantly some data showing that 
it actually works.

Without this it will almost for sure not clear the IESG (in particular 
Transport AD review), and rightly so. :)

** draft-decraene-lsr-isis-flooding-speed-03

I read this draft as providing feedback to transmitters on ways to modify the 
parameters of their CC algorithm. It doesn't actually seem in conflict with 
draft-ginsberg (or doesn't need to be) to me. I believe it's following the path 
of least resistance in utilizing existing IS-IS parameters. I wonder if we 
could be more adventurous here.

** Both

Both drafts mention trying to increase the ACK rate. I think we need to look 
deeply into this, as this is critical information for CC algorithms. It very 
well could be that we do not need protocol changes as the protocol provides an 
ACK (or NACK for LANs), but I also don't think changes or additions should be 
verboten either if they could provide significant improvements.

In the algorithms we propose or envision we need to be considering the affect 
of larger RTT on the algorithm for slow or long distant links (radios, 
satellites, long-haul fibers, etc).

Thanks,
Chris.
[As WG member]

[*] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hopps-ipsecme-iptfs-01#section-3
     https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hopps-ipsecme-iptfs-01#appendix-B),

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