RE: Extending shim6 to use multiple locator pairs simultaneously

[<john.loughney@nokia.com>]

Erik,

>The two reasons I remember being stated for why slow-start 
>isn't necessary the obvious answer are:
>  - the transport protocol needs to be robust against the case when the
>    route in the network changes from a high to a low capacity one.
>  - Not all changes are for the worse; when going from a low to a high
>    capacity path then there is no need to make things go slower.

Current behavior is that TCP doesn't really take into account radical
chances
in link capacity.  There is some on-going work in TSVWG on how to handle
extreme congestion events, but this isn't really something solved.  

John