It was intended to detect congestion. The obvious response was in some way to pace the sender(s) so that it was alleviated.
Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways... > On Sep 7, 2023, at 11:19 PM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > >> On 9/7/23 09:51, Saku Ytti wrote: >> >> Perhaps if congestion control used latency or FEC instead of loss, we >> could tolerate reordering while not underperforming under loss, but >> I'm sure in decades following that decision we'd learn new ways how we >> don't understand any of this. > > Isn't this partly what ECN was meant for? It's so old I barely remember what > it was meant to solve :-). > > Mark.
