Re: Last Call: An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement(SACK) Option for TCP to Proposed Standard

Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov> Wed, 01 March 2000 09:10 UTC

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To: Jonathan.Buschmann@icn.siemens.it
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Subject: Re: Last Call: An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement(SACK) Option for TCP to Proposed Standard
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:14:49 PST.
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:04:38 -0800
From: Vern Paxson <vern@ee.lbl.gov>
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> > Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP
> > <draft-floyd-sack-00.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
> 
> I thought this was originally proposed as an Experimental RFC

Correct.

> When, how and why was this changed? I didn't see any discussion on the
> mailing list.

The chairs/ADs deemed it a sufficiently minor (yet useful) change to SACK
that it doesn't seem necessary to go the route of first publishing it as
Experimental.  When the TSVWG working group last call was issued, it was
for publishing the document as Proposed, and we noted:

> The document was discussed
> at the last IETF and appears to have good support and no controversial
> issues.

There were no working group last call comments.

		Vern