[PANRG] IETF/IRTF huddle about Performance Implications of PATH Characteristics (PIPC)

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Dear PANRG,

The PILC ("Performance Implications of Link Characteristics") working group
produced a number of BCPs providing guidance for protocol designers working
with links that were slow, error-prone, and asymmetric, for subnetwork
designers, and for Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs), between 1999 and
2004.

Networks and protocols have changed significantly since 2004.

I believe it's time to revisit this topic, and to focus on PATH
characteristics, rather than first-hop link characteristics.

We had a side meeting about this at IETF 104, and there was significant
interest, so we are ready to move forward.

I'll be hosting a side meeting in the IETF Code Lounge at 8:30-9:30AM on
WEDNESDAY (moved from Tuesday to accommodate attendance at Technology Deep
Dive on NICs), to talk about next steps. Any recommendations will come out
of the IETF, but I'm inviting IRTF people to help us separate what's
research, and what's close enough to engineering to be used as the basis
for IETF recommendations.

Thanks - andplease come if you should be there.

Spencer