Fixing the Unfairness of TCP Congestion Control

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 24, 2008 @02:34AM 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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Bad analogy? by tepples · 2008-03-24 06:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm going to downgrade service on packets coming from Google video, because they haven't paid our "upgrade" tax, and coincidentally, we're invested in Youtube. Bad example. Google owns YouTube. Did you mean DailyMotion or Veoh?