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by lmm 4983 days ago
As it says, in wired networks packet loss is almost entirely due to congestion, so adding error-correction is unnecessary - better to just throttle down when you see it.

TCP is old and reliable and there are massive costs associated with switching to anything else. I think that's why we weren't doing this yet, and I think that's why this initiative will fail too.