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Congestion control

2000-12-14 16:00:02
For an industry that has been predicated on queuing theory that permits managing data traffic through moments of transient congestion, the idea that the best way to achieve Quality of Service is simply to throw excess bandwidth at the problem is quaint.

On the other hand, that simplistic congestion control approach has some appeal for planning IETF meeting capacity.

Rather than trying to carefully provide "enough" meeting room capacity for expected attendance, what would be the effect of reserving *too much* capacity for our meetings?

For example, ensure that rooms are 50% larger than we think they need to be and make sure there are some extra rooms, in case we need to move an oversubscribed group to a larger room.

The only two effects I can think of are: extra dollars and further restrictions on where we can meet. The latter is inevitable given our growth, the planning trick would merely accelerate the constraint.

How bad would the extra cost be? Given the work we do in these meetings and the negative effect of overcrowding, is the extra cost worthwhile?

d/

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