Re: [tcpm] draft-ietf-tcpm-hystartplusplus and QUIC

Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Mon, 19 September 2022 19:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] draft-ietf-tcpm-hystartplusplus and QUIC
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I followed it from afar. The proposed charter is fine, but I don't see 
much progress towards an actual WG. It seems that these discussions are 
de-factor happening in TCPM. Indeed, the TCPM charter says: "TCPM also 
provides a venue for standardization of incremental enhancements of 
TCP's standard congestion control. In addition, TCPM may document 
alternative TCP congestion control algorithms that are known to be 
widely deployed, and that are considered safe for large-scale deployment 
in the Internet."

-- Christian Huitema

On 9/19/2022 11:52 AM, Martin Duke wrote:
> Christian,
>
> Did you track my congestion control working group proposal in tsvarea?
>
> https://github.com/martinduke/congestion-control-charter
>
> This was well received but is currently no one is stepping up to nail down
> consensus on the charter.
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 11:50 AM Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I have followed the progress of the Hystart++ draft in TCPM, and I have a
>> process question.
>>
>> Algorithms like Hystart++ are not just used by TCP, but also by other
>> protocols like QUIC. They are developed in the "TCP maintenance" WG, which
>> is indeed about TCP, and thus the spec is quite TCP centric. For example,
>> in the definition section of draft-ietf-tcpm-hystartplusplus, we read that
>> "if the MSS option is not used, [the receiver maximum segment size] is 536
>> bytes" -- but "QUIC assumes a minimum IP packet size of at least 1280
>> bytes" per RFC9000. Which leads to the process question.
>>
>> Should congestion control algorithm be specified in a transport protocol
>> specific way, as for example "HyStart++ for QUIC", or should the
>> specification be kept as generic as possible?
>>
>> I can absolutely see valid reasons for doing either way. Having generic
>> specification means doing the work just once, also help achieving somewhat
>> compatible behavior by multiple transport protocols. Having transport
>> specific specifications leads to more precise specification -- HyStart++
>> for QUIC can reference the correct minimum packet size, the negotiation of
>> "max_udp_payload_size", or the interaction with
>> draft-ietf-quic-ack-frequency.
>>
>> The QUIC WG recently had an adoption call of a draft specifying "Careful
>> resumption of congestion control from retained state with QUIC". The
>> adoption was refused. To quote, "The chairs' sense of the feedback is
>> that while this is useful work that people support at the IETF, it is work
>> in a problem space is more broadly to do with congestion control and not
>> entirely QUIC specific." The authors were instructed to work with tsvwg, or
>> with a to-be-formed congestion control WG. So we see two discussions with
>> opposite conclusions: HyStart++ adopted in TCPM, careful resumption
>> redirected to a generic WG.
>>
>> I wish there was a consistent approach...
>>
>> -- Christian Huitema
>>
>>
>
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