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ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-i-rewired-it dept.

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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  1. SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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         peering into everyone's network

  2. Re:RMS on the same subject. by shaitand · · Score: -1, Troll

    I fail to see how Stallman's opinion on the topic is relevant to anyone but Stallman.

  3. You fail to see? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No. You simply fail.

  4. Re:RMS on the same subject. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So...for my 2 cents...RMS has contributed some good things to the community and is a bit of an activist if not an expert. The problem is like all fanatics his views can't be trusted to be reasonable or rational and as a result even when he is 100% correct you have to question his position. This is why anyone who wants to be taken seriously should avoid zealotry and extreme rhetoric and focus on rational arguments.