On 08/12/2010 07:14 EDT, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> From the conex- mailing list:
> 
> further arguments against handling congestions by the hosts.
> 
> I would assume that it is in the interest of some particular ISP that
> its routers can cope with congestion and that they would like solutions
> which do not depend on wether the majority of host will be equipped with
> MPTCP and similar concepts. This means they would like to depend on
> their own. 
> 
> I think it is more than obvious where to put congestion handling
> intelligence. 
> 
> Heiner

This is about congestion control on a particular path.  The multipath
approaches (MPTCP, SCTP CMT) attempt to respond to congestion across
multiple paths.  If the network is running conex on individual paths,
the trick is getting the algorithms right for balancing traffic across
multiple paths in that environment.  The end-to-end principle does
apply, but sometimes it's good to do things in the network.

Scott
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