Hi, Below:
> On Jul 24, 2022, at 3:03 AM, Toerless Eckert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Inline > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 08:10:43PM -0400, Stuart Cheshire wrote: >> I feel that in retrospect the name “congestion control” was a poor choice. >> Too often when I talk to people building their own home-grown transport >> protocol on top of UDP, and I ask them what congestion control algorithm >> they use, they smile smugly and say, “We don’t need congestion control.” >> They explain that their protocol won’t be used on congested networks. I agree SO strongly !!!!! The main problem of congestion control these days appears to be that networks are mostly underutilized (see the thread on ICCRG I started by pointing at our ComMag paper) - the issue is to increase the rate as quickly as possible, without producing congestion. It should really be called “rate control”. It’s about a sending rate - whether that is indirectly achieved by controlling a window or explicitly by changing a rate in bits per second doesn’t really matter. Cheers, Michael
