[e2e] Number of persistent connections per HTTP server?

[Joe Touch]

David P. Reed wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 10/13/2002 -0700, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
>> TCP _assumes_ per-connection is the definition of fair. That's 
>> incorrect when fair doesn't map to 'per connection'. Striping, 
>> pipelining, overlays, caching, etc. all examine areas of the design 
>> space where per-connection deliberately doesn't map to per-user or 
>> per-application.
> 
> Is there a document describing TCP where it says "TCP assumes fair is 
> per-connection"?

The original spec didn't really address fairness per se; Van's 88 paper 
is the earliest that made that assumption (somewhere around page 10). 
The implication is that per-connection is defined as fair.

It would have been more precise to say "most studies of TCP fairness 
assume per-connection is the definition of fair".

Joe