Re: [aqm] Document Action: 'The Benefits of using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-aqm-ecn-benefits-08.txt)

Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> Wed, 02 December 2015 03:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [aqm] Document Action: 'The Benefits of using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-aqm-ecn-benefits-08.txt)
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On 12/1/2015 5:22 PM, Steve Baillargeon wrote:
> Hi
> Sorry to come so late with a comment.
> Is it too late to add one more benefit to the draft?
>
> I suspect ECN brings potential and significant savings in CPU cycles and memory usage , especially on the "server side" terminating a large number of TCP connections.
> Has anyone done any analysis to confirm or contradict this assumption?
>


Hi Steve, thanks for the comment.

I don't think I've seen anyone analyze that before, and would guess at 
the moment that it's too tenuous to try to work into this particular 
document at its advanced stage.

I would recommend continuing discussion or research on this in AQM, 
TSVWG, ICCRG or other appropriate groups at the moment, but not altering 
the draft.  At the ADs, and editors discretion, and if there seems to be 
working group consensus, it might be noted as a potential benefit for 
future exploration, but that's about the only impact I think might be 
appropriate to this particular document at its advanced stage.