Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why is this a problem? ECN has to be deployed on routers, and it
>> currently isn't.
>
> Because tcp connection endpoints have to implement ECN in order to manage
> the flow.
A naive reader might think from Dan's posting that the Internet didn't
work at all before ECN was codified (experimental with RFC 2481 in
January 1999 and standards-track with RFC 3168 in September 2001).
Heck, if I didn't know better, I'd think he was trolling.
Of course, I may just be a grouchy malcontent who doesn't use RED, any
other kind of active queue management, or take hits from the
end-to-end-QoS-bong when it is passed in my direction... since the
only QoS for which I have any use is Quantity of Service. ECN has
always looked to me like a solution in search of a problem, which may
be why so few people have their panties in a bunch over non-support of
it.
---Rob
