[e2e] Open the floodgate - back to 1st principles

[David P. Reed]

At 11:49 AM 4/26/2004, Guy T Almes wrote:
>And, in the meantime, the designed-in behavior of growing cwnd until 
>something breaks does have some negative environmental impact.

You won't get any argument with me there!   If the router guys would just 
stop trying to "help" by squirrelling packets away in buffers until the 
burden becomes intolerable, and instead drop early, set ECN where possible, 
etc. they would probably find that from their worm's eye view of the world, 
it just gets better and better.

To the extent that endpoint implementers are lazy, any stacks that still 
don't support ECN should be motivated by smoother and higher performance.