[e2e] Can feedback be generated more fast in ECN?

Cannara cannara at attglobal.net
Thu Feb 15 21:26:25 PST 2001


Lloyd,

Yes, per a US dictionary, anyway:  "To overfill or overcrowd...to heap up or
crowd together".  Loss is not an inevitable consequence -- stretching of the
container may however be.  Ahhh, a life spent in computation -- always
allocating dynamically in a fixed space.  So unrealistic.  :]

Alex


Lloyd Wood wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, David P. Reed wrote:
> 
> > I'm usually pretty precise in my language. Confusing terms can lead to  bad
> > design - it's like trying to prove theorems based on inconsistent axioms.
> >
> > Congestion is the condition of a network that is operating with queues near
> > full on some paths.
> 
> If (in some hypothetical network with near-full queues) no packets are
> ever dropped, is it still congestion?
> 
> L.
> 
> <L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>



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