Re: Comments on multi6dt documents

[Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
...
> > Upon
> >    changing to a new address pair, transport layer protocol SHOULD be
> >    notified so that it can perform a slow start.
>
>
> > ==> using 'slow start' might be a bit accurate, because there's not much
> > slow in 'slow start' except the name.
>
>
> I think triggering slow start is pretty much all you can do to slow down 
> TCP

You mean slow-start restart, right?

I.e., you want to behave like you lost enough information that you start 
from the ground-state with congestion control. It should act like 
restarting after idle, more than just 'going into slow-start'.

Joe

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