Re: [tcpm] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tcpm-2140bis-08.txt

Updated based on AD feedback. 

> On Feb 7, 2021, at 5:01 PM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions WG of the IETF.
> 
>        Title           : TCP Control Block Interdependence
>        Authors         : Joe Touch
>                          Michael Welzl
>                          Safiqul Islam
>    Filename        : draft-ietf-tcpm-2140bis-08.txt
>    Pages           : 34
>    Date            : 2021-02-07
> 
> Abstract:
>   This memo provides guidance to TCP implementers that are intended to
>   help improve convergence to steady-state operation without affecting
>   interoperability. It updates and replaces RFC 2140's description of
>   interdependent TCP control blocks and the ways that part of TCP
>   state can be shared among similar concurrent or consecutive
>   connections. TCP state includes a combination of parameters, such as
>   connection state, current round-trip time estimates, congestion
>   control information, and process information. Most of this state is
>   maintained on a per-connection basis in the TCP Control Block (TCB),
>   but implementations can (and do) share certain TCB information
>   across connections to the same host. Such sharing is intended to
>   improve overall transient transport performance, while maintaining
>   backward-compatibility with existing implementations. The sharing
>   described herein is limited to only the TCB initialization and so
>   has no effect on the long-term behavior of TCP after a connection
>   has been established.
> 
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> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-2140bis/
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> There are also htmlized versions available at:
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-2140bis-08
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> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-tcpm-2140bis-08
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