Re: [AVTCORE] I-D Action: draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-circuit-breakers-16.txt

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

This version contains three sets of changes:

- Editorial changes to the Abstract and Introduction, to address Stephen Farrell’s comment by clarifying what it means to “operate within the envelope defined by this memo". 

- Update Section 4.5 (“Ceasing Transmission”) to address Alissa Cooper’s DISCUSS, clarifying that it is the RTP flows sharing a 5-tuple that are stopped when the circuit breaker triggers, rather than the entire call.

- Update Section 7 to address Mirja Mühlewind’s DISCUSS, expanding the discussion of how the RTP circuit breaker should react to ECN-CE marks. This changes “ECN-CE marked packets SHOULD be treated as if they were lost when calculating if the congestion-based RTP circuit breaker” into a more nuanced recommendation, based on likely future evolution of ECN response.

This changes the normative requirements of the specification, so a brief new WG last call is likely needed. 

Cheers,
Colin




> On 13 Jun 2016, at 21:46, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Audio/Video Transport Core Maintenance of the IETF.
> 
>        Title           : Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions
>        Authors         : Colin Perkins
>                          Varun Singh
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-circuit-breakers-16.txt
> 	Pages           : 26
> 	Date            : 2016-06-13
> 
> Abstract:
>   The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is widely used in telephony,
>   video conferencing, and telepresence applications.  Such applications
>   are often run on best-effort UDP/IP networks.  If congestion control
>   is not implemented in these applications, then network congestion can
>   lead to uncontrolled packet loss, and a resulting deterioration of
>   the user's multimedia experience.  The congestion control algorithm
>   acts as a safety measure, stopping RTP flows from using excessive
>   resources, and protecting the network from overload.  At the time of
>   this writing, however, while there are several proprietary solutions,
>   there is no standard algorithm for congestion control of interactive
>   RTP flows.
> 
>   This document does not propose a congestion control algorithm.  It
>   instead defines a minimal set of RTP circuit breakers: conditions
>   under which an RTP sender needs to stop transmitting media data, to
>   protect the network from excessive congestion.  It is expected that,
>   in the absence of long-lived excessive congestion, RTP applications
>   running on best-effort IP networks will be able to operate without
>   triggering these circuit breakers.  To avoid triggering the RTP
>   circuit breaker, any standards-track congestion control algorithms
>   defined for RTP will need to operate within the envelope set by these
>   RTP circuit breaker algorithms.
> 
> 
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-circuit-breakers/
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