[Starlink] Re: SCONE, bandwidth indeterminacy and network to host signals (was Re: Re: Starlink Digest, Vol 53, Issue 14)

[Sebastian Moeller <moeller0@gmx.de>]

Hi Jason,


> On 30. Sep 2025, at 16:42, Livingood, Jason <Jason_Livingood@comcast.com> wrote:
> 
> >> AFAIK, the objective of SCONE is " improve slow-start in general", not only
> >> for video, but I must confess I am not following it closely.
> 
> > Not seeing that objective clearly in the SCONE group/working group or ID, but I might have overlooked that.
> 
> IIRC one of the initial presentations was from Google on “Plan Aware Streaming” – see https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/materials/slides-119-sconepro-youtube-plan-aware-streaming-01.pdf.

Thanks a lot!  
This also shows which two entities likely try to push this though the IETF, Google and MNOs as for both there is money on line. I guess I revise my judgment somewhat, for that purpose it might be a reasonable solution, especially since this is aiming for informational status (aka, this is what we do, we just want to document it for you all out there). This does support me in my assessment that for starlink usage SCONE might not be all that helpful...

Regards
	Sebastian


> 
> JL