[re-ECN] Congestion Transparency (re-ECN) ad hoc BoF @Stockholm IETF

[Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

I'd like to get together people who might be interested in helping 
organise a BoF on Congestion Transparency (re-ECN) for a future IETF.

15:00 - 16:30 CET Thu 30 Jul Rm 501 @ Stockholm IETF conference venue

Pls give ideas for agenda items (I will too).

This isn't intended to be a general show-and-tell - it's mainly for 
people interested in helping/reviewing/discussing plans for a BoF to 
form an IETF working group. This should complement the design team 
work going on in ICCRG on a new capacity sharing architecture for the 
Internet. <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/CapacitySharingArch>

For those who won't be able to attend (and those who will), this list 
would also be a fine place to start discussions.

The main idea is to get some protocol specification activity going 
around re-ECN. Probably initially experimental track. So we can make 
some practical progress. But there is also room for writing docs 
about uses of congestion transparency and so on.

My colleague Alan Smith has (finally) got the green light from our 
employers to open source the Linux kernel code he has written. And 
there are two implementations in ns2 that I know of, with another two 
being planned. So we ought to be making sure the spec becomes truly 
common property and starts to evolve to commonly agreed requirements.

That means we have to be open to any changes, including using 
better/different fields in protocol headers, choosing a different 
name, and so on. But the most important thing is to make some 
practical progress.



Bob


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Bob Briscoe,               Networks Research Centre, BT Research