Document Action: 'Evaluating Congestion Control for Interactive Real-time Media' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria-14.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Wed, 25 March 2020 13:38 UTC

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 06:38:42 -0700
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Evaluating Congestion Control for Interactive Real-time Media'
(draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria-14.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques
Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Mirja Kühlewind and Magnus Westerlund.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria/

Technical Summary

The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is used to transmit media in
telephony and video conferencing applications. This draft describes
guidelines for how to evaluate new congestion control algorithms for
interactive point-to-point real-time media.

Working Group Summary

This draft started early in the lifetime of the working group. There was
some extensive discussion leading up to its adoption as a working group
draft at IETF 89. Since then, the scope has gradually narrowed and some
work has been split out into draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-test, but there has
been little controversy - slow progress has been rather a sign that the
group has focussed on congestion control algorithm design, rather than
on revising the evaluation criteria.

Document Quality

No media type, MIB doctor, or similar expert review needed. The working
draft has seen several evaluations of congestion control algorithms such
as NADA and SCReAM, and these have been based on the evaluation criteria
described in this draft, and in the other evaluation drafts. The criteria
seem mature and have been implemented.

Personnel

The shepherd is Colin Perkins. The responsible area directory is Mirja
Kühlewind.

RFC Editor Note

Nit: In section 2 last word should be "applies" instead of "apply" as Barry kindly pointed out. Editors forgot to fix that nit in the last revision.

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