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

Hi Bob,

just to give you some feedback: I'll be there.

Michael

Bob Briscoe schrieb:
> 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
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