Well, I'm concerned about the delay experienced by people when they surf the 
web... flow completion time, which relates not only to the delay of packets as 
they are sent from A to B, but also the utilization.

Cheers,
Michael


> On 27 Nov 2018, at 11:50, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Luca Muscariello wrote:
> 
>> link fully utilized is defined as Q>0 unless you don't include the packet 
>> currently being transmitted. I do, so the TXtteer is never idle. But that's 
>> a detail.
> 
> As someone who works with moving packets, it's perplexing to me to interact 
> with transport peeps who seem enormously focused on "goodput". My personal 
> opinion is that most people would be better off with 80% of their available 
> bandwidth being in use without any noticable buffer induced delay, as opposed 
> to the transport protocol doing its damndest to fill up the link to 100% and 
> sometimes failing and inducing delay instead.
> 
> Could someone perhaps comment on the thinking in the transport protocol 
> design "crowd" when it comes to this?
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swm...@swm.pp.se
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