[e2e] Open the floodgate - back to 1st principles

[David P. Reed]

At 04:44 AM 4/26/2004, Fu Cheng Peng, Franklin wrote:
>  RED and ECN is indeed "elegant" idea, a lot of variants are proposed and 
> well studied. The concern is how to deploy it in Internet. I am not sure 
> cisco routers have adopted it, which will be a minlestone phase to RED/ECN.
>

Cisco's priorities are often counterproductive, and its product strategy is 
about making money, which is not necessarily in line with making the 
Internet effective.

But Cannara claims that the problem is in TCP's design.   Cisco's product 
strategy has nothing to do with TCP - as far as I know every major stack 
supports ECN and RED.   My own research protocols take advantage of ECN on 
non-TCP links.