[Tech] Re: Backoff considered harmful?

[Jano]

Michael Rogers wrote:

> toad wrote:

>> We have to design the network on the basis that a lot of users (maybe
>> most users) will have lots of files queued up; any throttling that is
>> necessary to manage demand must be executed _by the network_.
> 
> Agreed, the main advantage of token passing over throttling is that it
> doesn't rely on users to limit their own usage.

Is token passing explained somewhere in the wiki? From your conversation it
sounds like a mechanism where one issues "tickets" to neighbors, where each
ticket means "you can make a request from me".

About successful requests being returned: how they are currently dealt with,
bandwidth-wise?