Re: Question the other way round:

On 11/19/2013 9:07 AM, Joe Touch wrote:
>
>
> On 11/15/2013 1:42 PM, Detlef Bosau wrote:
>> Why do we need congestion at all?
>
> No, but only if you use circuits. But then you've pushed the
> "congestion" overload situation to the circuit setup time, and not all
> circuits will succeed.
>
> Or you could be omniscient ;-)
>
> Otherwise, you need to deal with the fact that sometimes two packets
> want to go to the same output port and can't, and you didn't find that
> out until they collided.



Given the complete generality of the question that was asked, is there 
something fundamentally deficient in the answer in:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_control#Congestion_control

?

In particular, I think it's opening sentence is quite reasonable.

d/


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