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BufferBloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?

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Clockwise from top left: Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist for Google; Jim Gettys, technical staff member at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs; Van Jacobson, research fellow at PARC; and Nick Weaver, researcher at the International Computer Science Institute. Illustrations by John Balestrieri

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February 1, 2012

A discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys.

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Greetings -- thanks to Franz Dill for pointing me to this article from his blog at http://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/

The discussion brought up some thoughts on neural networks I have been thinking about for quite a few years --in the broader context, so wrote a response that might be of interest -- (sent a brief version to Vint)

What’s Wrong With the Neural Network? Lack of Data Structure that Enables Governance

http://kyield.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/whats-wrong-with-the-neural-network-lack-of-data-structure-that-enables-governance/

Mark Montgomery

   — Anonymous, February 1, 2012

I'm confused about Gettys vs. van Jacobson last statements. If the problem occurs at the point of "bandwidth transition" - e.g., from a fast to a slow link, then why are downstream applications such as Netflix and YouTube creating a problem in home networks. Those saturate the downstream link; they do not represent a scenario where a high bandwidth home application (e.g., Skype or Bittorrent) wants to inject upstream traffic.

   — Anonymous, March 29, 2012
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