[LOOPS] Another relevant draft in TCPM: ECN++

Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> Thu, 07 May 2020 16:50 UTC

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Subject: [LOOPS] Another relevant draft in TCPM: ECN++
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ECN++: Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to TCP Control Packets
draft-ietf-tcpm-generalized-ecn-05

… for TCP traffic, we probably must require ECN support to help at all; this draft is about using ECN to give some loss protection to the packets that need it the most (SYN, ..). Quite relevant for LOOPS, I think.

Cheers,
Michael