RE: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

[Jun'an Gao]

>> 6.  Doing traffic shaping at the network edge is better than on the host node for
> The host *is* the edge of the network.

I'm sorry to have not mentioned that I consider the host nodes, or the end nodes, are 
not network edge but instead something attached on the network edge. I consider the 
very last hub, or the access router which the end nodes connected to as 'the network 
edge'. And I'm sorry not to mention that practically  it is probably better to do 
traffic shaping at the service provider network edge, for some reason of accouting, 
congestion control, or required by service-level-agreement (I don't think throwing 
bandwidth at the QoS issue is a good choice in the near foreseeable future, especially 
for the enterprise users.).

Cheers!
Gao.