Re: [multipathtcp] Submitted drafts

Olivier and colleagues,

Thanks for all the work. 

Please comment on the drafts - for instance, what things are worth adding to the protocol bis?

phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: multipathtcp [mailto:multipathtcp-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Olivier Bonaventure
> Sent: 09 July 2015 16:05
> To: multipathtcp
> Subject: [multipathtcp] Submitted drafts
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> During the last week we have written and submitted several drafts that
> could be of interest for the working group :
> 
> * https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mptcp-experience-
> 02.txt
> 
> This is a revised version of the Use case and experience draft that is
> part of the WG charter. We've taken into account most of the comments
> received in June and have added some text on the utilisation of MPTCP
> proxies.
> 
> *
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bonaventure-mptcp-exp-
> option-00.txt
> 
> This draft proposes a standard encoding for experimental MPTCP options.
> Given the small number of MPTCP options, it is important to allow
> experimenters to use MPTCP options without wasting this limited
> ressource.
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bonaventure-mptcp-timestamp-
> 01.txt
> 
> This is an example of the utilisation of experimental options to encode
> a timestamp option
> 
> * https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bonaventure-mptcp-addr-
> 00.txt
> 
> This draft discusses some issues with the advertisement of addresses in
> Multipath TCP and proposes a small modification to the handling of the
> address identifiers of the initial subflow to simplify implementations.
> It also shows how the reverse DNS can be used as an alternative to
> ADD_ADDR to announce the addresses of servers. This technique is
> already
> used for multipath-tcp.org
> 
> * https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bonaventure-mptcp-backup-
> 00.txt
> 
> This draft discusses some issues with the support of backup subflows in
> the existing Multipath TCP specification. In RFC6824 backup subflows
> work well when a subflow completely stops, but not when a subflow
> experiences huge losses.
> 
> *
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bonaventure-mptcp-long-
> options-00.txt
> 
> There have been many discussions on the TCPM working group about
> extending the space for TCP options in the TCP header. In this draft,
> we
> explore several ways of changing the DSS option to allow Multipath TCP
> to support long options.
> 
> 
> Comments on any of those drafts are of course welcome. Some will be
> presented quickly in Prague but we won't probably have time to discuss
> all of them
> 
> Olivier
> 
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