Section 05
The record
Papers, specifications and the people behind them. Every entry is one layer, one mechanism, or one reason the delay is there.
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Papers
The congestion-control literature is unusually readable, and the 1988 work is the document the modern internet rests on.
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Specifications
The standards documents define what implementations must do, and reading them settles most arguments.
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People
A small number of named engineers are responsible for most of this, and they published as they went.
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Laboratories
Testbeds where this is measured rather than argued about.
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