Google and Microsoft violate Internet standards to get fast websites

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

Interesting

Conclusions

It’s getting late, so I’ll wrap this up with a few thoughts:

Fast is good. I’m excited to see that sub-100ms page loads are possible, and it’s a shame to not be able to take full advantage of modern networks because of protocol limitations (http being the limiting protocol, btw).

Being non-standards-compliant in a way that privileges their flows relative to others seems more than a little hypocritical from a company that’s making such a fuss about network neutrality.

I’m not really qualified to render judgment on whether IW10 is a net positive, but after reading the discussion (and considering that the internet hasn’t actually melted down), I’m inclined to think that it is.

I’m pretty confident that turning off slow-start entirely, as Microsoft seems to be doing in my trace, is a very bad thing (maybe even a bug).