[re-ECN] Expired re-ECN Internet Drafts

<alan.p.smith@bt.com> Fri, 18 September 2009 12:30 UTC

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There are 2 Internet Drafts for re-ECN, which have recently expired.
These are a description of the protocol:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-briscoe-tsvwg-re-ecn-tcp-07 and one
described as a "motivation" for re-ECN:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-briscoe-tsvwg-re-ecn-tcp-motivation-00
which is actually more of an architecture for re-ECN or a framework for
using the protocol. 

These 2 documents do need a re-write. I would hope that if the BOF goes
ahead then members of the community would want to shape these new
documents, be they direct replacements or entirely new documents. At the
very least we need a draft that properly documents the motivation for
congestion awareness.

In the meantime the expired drafts can be updated only as a keep-alive.
I would like to take the opportunity to re-name the motivation to
something more accurate, so propose renaming it to "A Framework for
adding Congestion Accountability to TCP/IP".

Is there anyone who wants to contribute to new documents? It could be
with providing content, editing, scoping, etc.

Alan