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Fixing the Unfairness of TCP Congestion Control

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-isn't-the-internet-a-democracy dept.

duncan99 writes "George Ou, Technical Director of ZDNet, has an analysis today of an engineering proposal to address congestion issues on the internet. It's an interesting read, with sections such as "The politicization of an engineering problem" and "Dismantling the dogma of flow rate fairness". Short and long term answers are suggested, along with some examples of what incentives it might take to get this to work. Whichever side of the neutrality debate you're on, this is worth consideration."

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  1. A New Way to Look at Networking by StCredZero · · Score: 5, Informative

    A New Way to Look at Networking is a Google Tech Talk. It's about an hour long, but there's a lot of very good and fascinating historical information, which sets the groundwork for this guy's proposal. Van Jacobson was around at the early days when TCP/IP were being invented. He's proposing a new protocol layered on top of TCP/IP that can turn the Internet into a true broadcast medium -- one which is even more proof against censorship than the current one!