David P. Reed wrote: > Now if the satellite manages each flow from source to destination as a > "constant bitrate" virtual circuit, like Iridium did (in their case > 14.4 kb/sec was the circuit rate, great for crappy voice, bad for > data), the Internet might work over a set of wired-up circuits (lke > MPLS) where the circuits would be frequently rebuilt (inside the > satellite constellation, transparent to the Internet) so queuing delay > would be limited to endpoints of the CBR circuits. That's what I think they will do. But, it might be SPRING rather than MPLS. > But I doubt that is where they are going. Instead, I suspect they > haven't thought about anything other than a packet at a time, with no > thought to reporting congestion by drops or ECN. Agreed. > And it's super easy to build up seconds of lag on TCP if you don't > signal congestion. TCP just keeps opening its window, happy as a clam. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | IoT architect [ ] mcr@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [