In my previous message, I managed to make an amazingly bad typo.
Perhaps it was a subconcious slip revealing my anarchist nature,
but it is *entirely* wrong regardless; On the off-chance that
anyone read that far...
I typed:
> Corruption is the default response to loss, so in the absence of
^^^^^^^^^^
> any other indications, a congestion response is triggered at the
> ....
This should read:
Congestion is the default response to loss, so in the absence of
any other indications, a congestion response is triggered at the
...
Congestion should always be the default response. The only possible
exception to this rule would be that you control all the resources in
the end-to-end path AND you manage the traffic sources so tight that
congestion is not a possibility. Such environments do exist, but they
aren't the Internet.
Sorry for any distress that this massive mistake might have
caused anyone besides myself.
Eric
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