Re: [dispatch] draft-shen-soc-avalanche-restart-overload

This seems like a draft that could benefit from review in a WG. Can someone fill in a bit of the background of this draft in SOC. I’m not seeing why the SOC charter would need to be changed to do this work. 

On Feb 11, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Charles Shen <charles@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Dear all: 
> 
> As advised by Richard Barnes, I am writing to seek opinion from you about this draft:
> 
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-shen-soc-avalanche-restart-overload/
> A Mechanism for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Avalanche Restart Overload Control
> 
> Abstract:
>    When a large number of clients register with a SIP registrar server
>    at approximately the same time, the server may become overloaded.
>    Near-simultaneous floods of SIP SUBSCRIBE and PUBLISH requests may
>    have similar effects.  Such request avalanches can occur, for
>    example, after a power failure and recovery in a metropolitan area.
>    This document describes how to avoid such overload situations.  Under
>    this mechanism, a server estimates an avalanche restart backoff
>    interval during its normal operation and conveys this interval to its
>    clients through a new Restart-Timer header in normal response
>    messages.  Once an avalanche restart actually occurs, the clients
>    perform backoff based on the previously received Restart-Timer header
>    value before sending out the first request attempt.  Thus, the
>    mechanism spreads all the initial client requests and prevents them
>    from overloading the server.
> 
> The draft has been presented and discussed in IETF meetings since 2010, and generated interest among the community:
> 
> https://encrypted.google.com/search?as_q=draft-shen-soc-avalanche-restart-overload&as_sitesearch=www.ietf.org%2Fmail-archive%2Fweb%2F
> 
> I am looking for your kind opinion on what should be the appropriate next step for this document:
> 
> -- Should this draft be dispatched to SOC (and their charter amended)?
> -- Should this draft be processed as AD-sponsored?
> -- Should this draft be killed (if it is harmful)?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
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