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Re:HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3 by profmonocle on Sunday November 11, 2018 @06:09PM (#18429308)
> The OS can throttle sends on a single machine, but it can't arbitrate across machines or do anything about incoming flows.

Isn't that the case with TCP's congestion control as well? If the server's kernel isn't backing off properly, how can the client's TCP stack mitigate that?

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Re:HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3 by quotemstr on Sunday November 11, 2018 @07:24PM (#18429673)
People running services can and do play games with TCP send-side congestion control: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942442

So far, these hacks have been limited by the need to work with stock receive-side TCP stacks. Once you move to UDP, all bets are off.

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