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by ajb 922 days ago
TCP congestion control can use this new signal, if present. An update to the TCP protocol which allows it to do is going through IETF at present: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ec...
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Can anyone guess a timeline when this will be available in OSes, middleboxes and whatnot? So when can we reap the benefits?
The slowest part is likely to be the network component, and there you can look at the experimental deployment by Comcast, that others have linked to in comments. So far I have not heard of moves by other network providers. Apple already has experimental L4S support for QUIC and TCP: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/testing_an...