ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management

An anonymous reader writes "Lawrence Roberts, co-founder of ARPANET and inventor of packet switching, today published an article in which he claims to solve the congestion control problem on the Internet. Roberts says, contrary to popular belief, the problem with congestion is the networks, not Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Rather than overhaul TCP, he says, we need to deploy flow management, and selectively discard no more than one packet per TCP cycle. Flow management is the only alternative to peering into everyone's network, he says, and it's the only way to fairly distribute Internet capacity."

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[shaitand]

Everyone has the right to comment. But unless they have some sort of special knowledge on the topic at hand their comment deserves no more weight than that of an AC on Slashdot.

I welcome comments from RMS on topics where he is an expert and will happily grant them weight. On other issues he is just another individual with a pulpit who somehow thinks I need him to tell me what to think.