[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[Saad Biaz]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Cannara wrote:

> Ok, got it Spencer.  Apparently there are flows that mock TCP, so any tools
> that look only at Protocol and Port fields will fail to expose them.  I
> haven't seen these myself, but I believe others on this list have.
>
> In any case, I don't really care that TCP is in the majority or not.  If it
> is, then the situation is worse, because then more flows will be subject to
> unreasonable slowdowns, which is what I see at client sites -- e.g., last
> week's 1% loss => 50% slowdown example.  If TCP is not in the majority, then
> many non-TCP folks are getting good flows and the TCP ones are just getting
> dinged more.
>
> The bottom line is that the research on managing the network layer has been
> put off for 20 years or so and is long overdue.  TCP diddling won't do the job
> needed, because TCP is faced with strict undecidability.  There have been
> links from IP to TCP proposed to help, but unless even IP has better path
> info, the game is not going to be played well.

Please, we need some numbers.
Currently, numbers says about 90% of the traffic is TCP. If TCP is so bad
and slows down too badly for no good reason, then
the link utilization of backbone routers must be quite low.

Please, some numbers!!!