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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:59:38 -0700

> I was reading "Removing Exponential Backoff from TCP" by Mondal and
> Kusmznovic at Northwesetern in ACM CCR. The paper tries to show that
> nothing breaks by getting rid of backoff. Interestingly, FreeBSD
> already doesn't do backoff until after 5th retry.

Cell phone network folks want this (or something like it) too.