things to watch, to read, and to learn:

bufferbloat by jim getty tcp sucks by bram cohen. and the cacm discussion: bufferbloat: what's wrong with the internet

tcp doesn't suck

to dig on: Access Control and Copyright Protection for Images RACE Project M1005, 1994

sidestep: if this was the way eu project papers needed to be written in the 1990s, i guess the commission should simply go back to their beginnings in order to make it easier to apply.

anyhow: an overview of dreams and ideas worldwide: Architectures for the Future Networks and the Next Generation Internet, 2011