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Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 06:28:05
On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:43, t.p. <daedulus(_at_)btconnect(_dot_)com> wrote:
but I am positing that for most
of the IETF, congestion control is a solved topic and little expertise
is needed

I have seen too many WGs trying to build "lightweight" UDP-based application 
protocols that do not correctly back off under loss to agree with you here.

It's solved IFF a standard transport like TCP is used. Not otherwise. (And even 
when TCP is used, questions like "how many parallel connections" remain.)

Lars