[mhandley]

I've no idea what techniques will actually be applied by operators - I never expected middleboxes to go to the extremes they currently do either. But the technique I mentioned, of briefly delaying a short burst of packets, if done only occasionally, isn't really going to be noticed during a large transfer. I'm not claiming its a good idea though!

[anameaname]

Large transfer's wouldn't be the place where the effect would be noticeable, it would be JSON payloads that can fit in a few packets. If operators would do this seldomly enough to not be noticed, why do they need the bit at all? It feels like a blank (albeit single digit) check.