[Bloat] Network computing article on bloat

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Wesley Eddy wrote:
> On 4/26/2011 2:17 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> >"Big Buffers Bad. Small Buffers Good."
> >
> >"*Some* packet loss is essential for the correct operation of the Internet"
> >
> >are two of the memes I try to propagate, in their simplicity. Even
> >then there are so many qualifiers to both of those that the core
> >message gets lost.
> 
> 
> The second one is actually backwards; it should be "the Internet can
> operate correctly with some packet loss".

Right now in the real world, it CANNOT operate correctly WITHOUT the use
of aggressive packet loss to throttle back flows, or the queues just
fill up to the brink, and then you start dropping all packets anyway.

IMO, Dave's wodring get that point across a lot better.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh