- From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:00:02 -0400
- To: ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>is that most web traffic by volume has different, sometimes weaker >requirements than those provided by TCP. This can be used to give >improved performance *AND* improved congestion characteristics. Makes sense to me. I'd like to know why congestion control can only be done on a TCP-connection basis and not a host-basis? Seems to me you just need a few new ICMP pdu's. > Using something other than TCP for basic HTTP operation on HTML >files, or other similar object types is almost always a lose (unless you >reimplement TCP from scratch). That's pretty strong. What's your basis for this claim? /r$
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