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Re:QUIC is now RFC 9000 by quotemstr on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:08AM (#27314907)
Because if it's not in the OS, people are going to cheat more often on congestion control to prioritize their own streams. It's a tragedy of the commons. It's only because TCP is ossified and usually in the kernel that we haven't seen a race to the bottom already.
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Re:QUIC is now RFC 9000 by BenjiWiebe on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:33AM (#27333948)
I'm pretty sure that's not how congestion control works... My ISP doesn't honor my congestion control flags. Whatever congestion control I set up ONLY changes things on my side of the ISP connection. And yes, within my LAN, I definitely can prioritize various streams.
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Re:QUIC is now RFC 9000 by quotemstr on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:33PM (#27346374)
Why do you think it is that we do congestion control at all? Why doesn't every program spam UDP packets as fast as it can write them to the NIC?
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