Re: WebRTC and backpressure (how to stop reading?) from Martin Thomson on 2014-03-27 (public-webrtc@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:26:50 -0700
To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Cc: "public-webrtc@w3.org" <public-webrtc@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnW6c46j6_hYb6SUz-29AA7hXaSFt_mb6aWmypBmE0TTLQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 26 March 2014 14:57, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> In fact, you might want to read up on HTTP/2.0 - especially why it's
> neccessary, and why it uses a single congestion-control connection between
> each client/server pair, not multiple ones.

...and why per-stream flow control (i.e., back pressure, which is not
much related to congestion control) is critical to the operation of
the protocol.

I think that we should be asking the IETF to fix SCTP for us (as
opposed to patching its deficiences over the top).

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:27:17 UTC