Note that questions from the other sections are
also applicable here.
Additional Questions:
How does packet treatment (buffering and active queue management)
affect utilization, fairness, and loss?
How can we improve (render serviceable) multicast scalability and
performance (protocol and architecture)?
What is the extent of improvement from HTTP1.1 (persistence,
caching, cooperation from browser implementations)? What else
might be able to help traffic performance?
What information discovery tools and mechanisms
can minimize scanning e.g., from web robots?
What are the most critical/viable alternatives currently
being explored with respect to equitable pricing
models? Includes how to implement multiple
service levels, and how to reshape research
agenda to develop incentives for user behavior
to reflect valuation of bandwidth consumption
closer to its actual cost.
What if any incentive is there for backbone providers
to share information (among themselves OR to the public)?
