Re: [multipathtcp] A question related to MPTCP control overhead

Sayee Kompalli Chakravartula <sayee.kompalli.chakravartula@huawei.com> Mon, 10 April 2017 08:12 UTC

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Hello,
I do not intend to suggest any change to rfc6824bis in the immediate future! Nevertheless, I will try to design a solution and, when confident, I will bring it to IETF's attention.

Sayee


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From: Olivier Bonaventure [mailto:Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be] 
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 4:06 PM
To: Sayee Kompalli Chakravartula; multipathtcp@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] A question related to MPTCP control overhead

Hello,

> Thanks for the response. While preparing reply to your observation, I came across your 2013 Sigcomm paper "Are TCP Extensions Middlebox-proof?", and I believe that I should read that paper before I reply you.
>
> I thought of a rough sketch of solution without regard to what middleboxes can do, which essentially assumes a state-machine at both ends. Before I embark on designing a solution, if at all feasible, I wanted to know how others think of such an issue. Hope to reply you soon.

My fear is that any solution would introduce a significant change to Multipath TCP. We have evidence from the widespread utilisation of Multipath TCP by Apple for Siri that the current design (DSS in all segments, including initial subflow) works well in today's Internet. 
Changing this part for rfc6824bis looks very risky to me.


Olivier