[e2e] [Fwd: RED-->ECN]

[Jitendra Padhye]

If users replace elephant connections with armies of mice, just because of
the low loss rate guaranteed by the SLA, won't the loss rate increase?
Perhaps the increase will be enough to make elephants more attractive than
the armies of mice, once again? I can not imagine that the loss rate
specified in SLAs continues to remain valid regardless of the
characteristics of the traffic you send in.

- Jitu

> > It is unclear whether your interesting observation is a bug, 
> > as you suggest, or rather a feature that results from the 
> > basic packet physics. Why is it a bad thing if users can 
> > optimize their service by opening multiple TCP connections?
> 
> Well, if the result is that people actually bypass the congestion
> avoidance algorithm for high speed transmissions at the cost of more
> complex implementations, then maybe we ought to fix the algorithm so
> they can use simpler software while remaining "legal."
> 
> -- Christian Huitema
>