Re: [RRG] Why delaying initial packets matters

[Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>]

Excerpts from Lars Eggert on Thu, Feb 14, 2008 11:20:55AM +0200:
> On 2008-2-13, at 20:15, ext Dino Farinacci wrote:
>> Lars, it's not an either or thing, and just because there are more hosts 
>> than routers or whatever metric you want to use, there *is* going to be 
>> pain. We can share it or we can put it all in one place.
>
> I agree it's not an either-or decision. And it is actually possible to 
> combing routing scalability changes with other changes at the 
> internetworking layer, so that application and transport performance 
> *increases* rather than decreases.
>
> For example, an RRG proposal that attempted to offset lookup-induced 
> delays/inefficiencies through enabling QuickStart/XCP/RCP or maybe some 
> other to-be-defined explicit feedback scheme would be *extremely* 
> interesting, IMO.
>
> (Yes, making use of the explicit feedback will require changes to the 
> hosts, too. But at least there'd be a strong incentive for the hosts to 
> change.)

Have we seen any explicit example problems wrt transport performance
yet?  

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