  How do we assess a new Internet congestion control (CC) design? How do we
compare it with other existing schemes? Under what scenarios and using what
network parameters? These are just a handful of simple questions coming up
every time a new CC design is going to be evaluated. Interestingly, the number
of specific answers to these questions can be as large as the number of CC
designers. In this work, we aim to highlight that the network congestion
control, as a hot and active research topic, requires a crystal clear set(s) of
\textit{CC Benchmarks} to form a common ground for quantitatively comparing and
unambiguously assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a design with respect
to the existing ones. As a first step toward that goal, we introduce general
benchmarks that can capture the different performance of the existing Internet
CC schemes. Using these benchmarks, we rank the Internet CC algorithms and
illustrate that there is still lots of room for more innovations and
improvements in this topic.
