[e2e] Google seeks to tweak TCP

[Detlef Bosau]

On 01/24/2012 12:01 PM, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
> well, perhaps - sometimes, i just wish TCP would simply get out of the way...


Jon,

as science is usually thinking in alternatives: What is your alternative 
for TCP? Anybody is free to propose one.

In addition, I wonder, why we need Science at all. We already have 
Google and Wikipedia and obviously, research is no longer being done by 
academics or by some huge companies but by Google.

Brave new world.

Lloyd pointed out some criticism, and we should well remember the 
Hippocratic oath: "First do no harm." And thoughtlessly increasing 
initial windows or other "parameter changes" _may_ do harm.

On the quoted blog, we find comments like this one:

> Rich Jones <http://www.blogger.com/profile/05420634711083784817>Jan 
> 23, 2012 12:14 PM 
> <http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html?showComment=1327349640021#c7326672375960415062>
>
>     This is awesome work. I'm glad that Google is putting their vast
>     engineering resources to such good use.
>
>     Rich, Gun.io
>
> Reply
> Clemens Harten 
> <http://www.blogger.com/profile/06607566431465103036>Jan 23, 2012 
> 12:24 PM 
> <http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-make-tcp-faster.html?showComment=1327350285920#c7113922870277087622>
>
>     It is impressive to see how simple changes (justified by extensive
>     research) can lead to a great improvement of the protocol. Well done!
>
> Reply

And whenever people are exited by simple recipes which save the world, 
we always should keep in mind RFC 1925.
>     (6)  It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving
>          the problem to a different part of the overall network
>          architecture) than it is to solve it.
>
>

and of course:

>          (7a) (corollary). Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't
>              have all three).

Or, as H. L. Mencken said:

> "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat 
> and wrong"

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