Re: [tcpm] [tsvwg] CONGestion RESponse and Signaling (CONGRESS) charter

[Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]>]

Jonathan,

On 09/11/2022 09:44, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>> On 9 Nov, 2022, at 11:10 am, Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> 2/ Another question: Why 'and Signalling' in the title?
>> Other than the title and response to congestion signals, the charter doesn't say anything about signalling itself.
>> If, say, there were more work on tunnelling ECN or something, would tsvwg take that on, or congress?
> "Congestion signalling" refers not only to the mechanisms that allow congestion to be detected by transports, but the algorithms (from drop-tail overflow upwards) which generate those congestion signals to control transports' demand on network resources.
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> The former aspect, referring to the wire protocols, may well be properly handled by TSVWG and/or individual protocol WGs (eg. TCPM, QUIC, etc).  The latter aspect, however, is more general in terms of protocol and more specific to congestion control itself.  I think "… & Signalling" would refer very naturally to text mentioning AQM in the body of the charter.

[BB] You're right. So this sort-of implies that 'congestion signalling' 
is a rather ambiguous phrase to have in the title. If both meanings will 
be handled by this group, then fine. But if only the generation of 
congestion signals is in scope, the title might need to be re-worked.


Bob

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>   - Jonathan Morton

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