[e2e] Agility of RTO Estimates, stability, vulneratibilites

[sireen malik]

David,

I agree with your following statements.

"... the abstraction creates a brittle problem structure - knock one of 
the assumptions and the whole elaborate business falls over dead. "

and

" On the other hand if the use of the .....*****.....is getting a paper 
published, accuracy is best calculated as whatever it takes to get peer 
reviewers to nominate yourpaper for publication.   One hopes that peer 
reviewers are quite familiar with the normal needs for which such 
measurements are done.   But for new fields and for "mature fields" 
where theory has gone a separate way from practice, peers may be just as 
limited as the author in terms of their perspective.   This is the 
"danger" I refer to. "

So what do you think about the Poissonian assumption now?

Isn't it that one assumption which when one knocks, and the whole 
elaborate business begins to look wobbly around knees, if it does not 
fall over dead . I have read a few papers on TCP, and have the 
impression that this assumption remains at the core of the analysis "for 
getting papers published" as well as  getting them "nominated"! For the 
vast majority of the TCP people, heavy-tails distributions is theory. 
Just that.

I think this is the "danger" your refer to.

I do note, however, that a great utility of the Poisson assumption is 
that no one hurls heat vortices and path-dependent sunspots at you! 

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SM