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Jordan Melzer <Jordan.Melzer@telus.com> Tue, 05 July 2016 15:48 UTC

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Hi Joe,

The main RFC reference for performance enhancing proxies is here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3135

It gives consideration to the end-to-end principle and describes deployments (current as of 2001).

Do you have an informational RFC (or other BCP) reference for routing-based approaches to multipathing individual-user traffic?

Re TCP over TCP approaches, if they could work, would you like them better than a proxy approach?  Eg, (untested) MP-DCTCP lower layer?

Jordan

-----Original Message-----
From: multipathtcp [mailto:multipathtcp-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joe Touch
Sent: July 1, 2016 01:27 PM
To: Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be; Mingui Zhang; philip.eardley@bt.com; sarikaya@ieee.org; multipathtcp@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] draft-boucadair-mptcp-plain-mode-07



On 7/1/2016 12:01 AM, Olivier Bonaventure wrote:
> Hello,
>>
>> In the paired MPTCP proxies mechanism, there is user's TCP session 
>> and there is also multipath TCP session. It is a TCP over TCP idea, 
>> correct?
>
> No, there are three TCP connections in this scenario :
>
> - one (regular) TCP connection between client and CPE
> - one Multipath TCP connection between the CPE and the Concentrator
> - one (regular) TCP connection between the Concentrator and the remote 
> server
>
>> As for TCP over TCP, the following page explains why an internal 
>> meltdown effect would take place due to the interaction between two 
>> leveled retransmission mechanisms.
>> http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
>
> This is a well known issue.
>
>> Do we have solid solutions for this issue nowadays?
>
> The solution is to terminate the TCP connections transparently. This 
> is what most TCP optimisers used in mobile networks do already.

Is there a current standard or BCP endorsing this practice?

AFAICT, it's in direct opposition of RFC1122. I hope we don't want to create a new RFC that flies in the face of what few standards we have unless we're prepared to revise those standards first.

"deployed in the wild" is not a sufficient justification, IMO.

Joe

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