Re: [Int-area] BOF: Transport-Enhancing Refinements to the Network Layer Interface (TERNLI)

[Bernard Aboba <aboba at internaut.com>]

> This isolation, however, comes at a cost, because the traditional
> communication abstraction maintained by these new network-layer extensions
> hides information that transport-layer protocols should act on. 

The information is hidden only for the purposes of connection management, 
not for parameter estimation. 

> Many common
> transport mechanisms, such as congestion window estimation, RTT measurements
> or path MTU discovery, are not agile enough to properly handle the significant
> instantaneous changes to path characteristics that these network-layer
> extensions introduce. 

I might say that "Many current transport algorithms for...", so that it 
is not implied that there are no algorithms that would work. 


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