During the recent IETF meeting it was pointed out to me that we got it all wrong when we called the end-to-end transport flow control algorithms “congestion control,” as this was a term with negative connotations about the network and the quality of the user experience. If we had called this function something like “performance optimisation,” then maybe the focus of the work would be not on how to avoid network congestion and packet loss, as such transient behaviours are intrinsic to ...
