internet draft on suggested mod to the Nagle algorithm

[Greg Minshall <[e-mail]>]

Tcp-impl people,

Just in case you didn't see the following, i'm forwarding the announcement 
along.  I'd love to hear any thoughts people might have, both on the concept 
and on how to implement it.  (I need to do at least one modification to add in 
how Sam Manthorpe/SGI has addressed this issue.)

Thanks,  Greg Minshall
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

	Title		: A Suggested Modification to Nagle's Algorithm
	Author(s)	: G. Minshall
	Filename	: draft-minshall-nagle-00.txt
	Pages		: 4
	Date		: 29-Jan-99
	
   The Nagle algorithm is one of the primary mechanisms which protects
   the internet from poorly designed and/or implemented applications.
   However, for a certain class of applications (notably,
   request-response protocols) the Nagle algorithm interacts poorly
   with delayed acknowledgements to give these applications poorer
   performance.

   This draft is NOT suggesting that these applications should disable
   the Nagle algorithm.

   This draft suggests a fairly small and simple modification to the
   Nagle algorithm to preserve Nagle as a means of protecting the
   internet while at the same time giving better performance to a
   wider class of applications.

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