Many applications can and often do vary their transmission over a
wide range of rates. Using [RFC2861], such applications often
experienced varying performance, which made it hard for application
developers to predict the TCP latency even when using a path with
stable network characteristics. We argue that an attempt to classify
application behaviour as application-limited or idle is problematic
and also inappropriate. This document therefore explicitly avoids
trying to differentiate these two cases, instead treating all rate-
limited traffic uniformly.
Many applications can and often do vary their transmission over a wide range of rates. Using [RFC2861], such applications often experienced varying performance, which made it hard for application developers to predict the TCP latency even when using a path with stable network characteristics. We argue that an attempt to classify application behaviour as application-limited or idle is problematic and also inappropriate. This document therefore explicitly avoids trying to differentiate these two cases, instead treating all rate- limited traffic uniformly.