Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks
Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 11:55:40 +0200
> of falling apart. All aside from the Alan's point about humans hitting
> the stop key on their browser and then resending their link, there is a
> "tragedy of the commons" effect where implementors who break exponential
> backoff win at the expense of people who obey the RFC's --- but if
> everyone did this, the net would melt down.
> One of his suggestions was to have the core routers enforce backoff, so
> that the incentives for cheating would go away.
This is also explained in RFC 970 and the simple solution given there
looks as if it could avoid the worst part of the problem. As this
paper dates from 1985, I can't imagine that no progress in this area
has happened until last year. What am I missing?
olaf
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