RE: Path-switch-triggered congestion (Was: RE: Extending shim6 to use multiple locator pairs simultaneously)

[<john.loughney@nokia.com>]

Erik,

>> IMO this is not a show-stopping problem, as TCP will throttle back 
>> fairly quickly, and the impact should be limited to 
>approximately the 
>> depth of the slow link's buffer.  That's not to say it's not worth 
>> addressing (in the TSVWG), but it doesn't seem to me like something 
>> that should hold up shim6...
>
>My take is that shim6 should provide a notification mechanism 
>that the transports can use to be told when there is a locator 
>pair change.
>What the transports do when they are notified is presumably 
>something that folks in the transport area can discuss, thus 
>it isn't a show-stopper for shim6.

FYI - I agree.

John