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Title : Flow Rate Fairness: Dismantling a Religion
Author(s) : B. Briscoe
Filename : draft-briscoe-tsvarea-fair-02.txt,.pdf
Pages : 44
Date : 2007-7-11
Resource allocation and accountability have been major unresolved
problems with the Internet ever since its inception. The reason we
never resolve these issues is a broken idea of what the problem is.
The applied research and standards communities are using completely
unrealistic and impractical fairness criteria. The resulting
mechanisms don't even allocate the right thing and they don't
allocate it between the right entities. We explain as bluntly as we
can that thinking about fairness mechanisms like TCP in terms of
sharing out flow rates has no intellectual heritage from any concept
of fairness in philosophy or social science, or indeed real life.
Comparing flow rates should never again be used for claims of
fairness in production networks. Instead, we should judge fairness
mechanisms on how they share out the `cost' of each user's actions on
others.
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