[e2e] Skype and congestion collapse.

[Christian Huitema]

>   So, you agree that an Internet application can use as much bandwidth
>   as it desires. Skype is not doing anything wrong by using 10's of
Kbps.

Basically, yes. The Internet should remain stable in the presence of
selfish user. In fact, a well designed control algorithm should assume
that all users are behaving selfishly. A good place to start may be: 

S. Shenker, "Making Greed Work in Networks: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of
Switch Service Disciplines," in SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications
Architectures and Protocols, (London, UK), pp. 47-57, Sept. 1994.

-- Christian Huitema