Re: At TSVAREA in Philadelphia: The Future of Congestion Control at IETF (and a new name for it?)

[Michael Welzl]

> On 25 Jul 2022, at 10:47, Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> On 25. Jul 2022, at 10:42, Michael Welzl <mich...@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>> 
>> There is overload, which is undesirable; there is also underload, which is 
>> no less desirable. In between, there is an ideal state that CC algorithms 
>> aim for: 100% utilization at the bottleneck but no adverse effects for 
>> anyone.
>> I would call this “saturation” or “full utilization” or something like that, 
>> but not “congestion”.
> 
> So this is all about “load control”?

I like this!


> Proper sharing of capacity is the other part of the function.

Correct.  (this comment made me think of additions to your suggested name 
above, but they just complicate it … “load control” is really nice IMO!)

Cheers,
Michael