Re: [p2pi] One more proposed definition of fairness...

[Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU>]

Nicholas Weaver wrote:
> (Buried in a previous mail, but I'd like comments on this separately)
>
>
> How does the following sound as one possible ideal goal for user- 
> fairness:
>
> "Mechanisms to enable the network to enforce traffic such that, in the  
> presence of congestion, a user's congestion control response becomes  
> equivalent to aggregating all traffic from that user into a single TCP  
> stream."

See the Congestion Manager or RFC2140 ;-)

This is easy to do at the end system, but, AFAICT, impossible to 
accomplish anywhere else (users will just grab multiple IP addresses, 
e.g.) - or worse, involves violating TCP (or, equivalently, won't work 
on encrypted/authenticated streams).

Joe

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