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> Your post sounds more like it is driven more by some issue you have with Google I'll ignore that and suggest instead you read up on what happened to the Int
by _wmd 9y ago
> Your post sounds more like it is driven more by some issue you have with Google
I'll ignore that and suggest instead you read up on what happened to the Internet in the early 90s, the last time congestion control literally broke everything
- chocolatebunny 9y agoAny chance you can point to a source about what happened in the 90s? I googled "congestion control what happened to the Internet in the early 90s" and it lead me no where.
- _wmd 9y agoThe relevant keyword fu is 'congestion collapse', and it seems I may be misremembering what you can read about in the opening of Van Jacobsen's paper on congestion control ( http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf ) and some new algorithms that were introduced in the early-mid 90s, but perhaps someone with more clue knows what I was thinking of Finally it's not the first time Google did something foul like that in the protocols department. IIRC they deploy a modified TCP slow start which also doesn't play fair in the face of contention
- puzzle 9y agoCongestion collapse is what happened in the mid 80s that led to the creation of Jacobson's congestion control. He's at Google now, working on BBR (which their QUIC uses). Are you thinking of the early P2P days?