Re: Google seeks to tweak TCP

At 18:21 23-01-2012, L.Wood <at> surrey.ac.uk wrote:
>Can it be argued that google is attacking the wrong layer?

I don't think so.  There have been efforts at different layers.  If X 
finds that change Y can shave a few milliseconds without negative 
consequences to its users, X will deploy the change.  For example:

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36640.html

http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2011/11/flickrs-new-dynamic-content-acceleration/

Regards,
-sm