Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

This memo presents two recommendations to the Internet community concerning measures to improve and preserve Internet performance.It presents a strong recommendation for testing, standardization, and widespread deployment of active queue management in routers, to improve the performance of today's Internet.It also urges a concerted effort of research, measurement, and ultimate deployment of router mechanisms to protect the Internet from flows that are not sufficiently responsive to congestion notification.