Re: [tcpm] [EXTERNAL] Re: On Sender Control of Delayed Acks in TCP

Carles Gomez Montenegro <carlesgo@entel.upc.edu> Thu, 18 June 2020 16:08 UTC

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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:07:51 +0200
From: Carles Gomez Montenegro <carlesgo@entel.upc.edu>
To: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
Cc: Praveen Balasubramanian <pravb=40microsoft.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell=40google.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, Matt Mathis <mattmathis=40google.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, "tcpm@ietf.org" <tcpm@ietf.org>, Jon Crowcroft <jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk>, Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen@lurchi.franken.de>
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] [EXTERNAL] Re: On Sender Control of Delayed Acks in TCP
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Hi Joe,

> Carles,
>
>> On Jun 18, 2020, at 1:29 AM, Carles Gomez Montenegro
>> <carlesgo@entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not start as defining an Experimental Option (with a corresponding
>>> code point)?
>>>
>>> Joe
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> (I understand that you mean an Experimental-category specification
>> defining a TCP Option using a dedicated kind number different from 253
>> or
>> 254.)
>
>
> That's definitely NOT what I meant.
>
> Please review RFC 6994. There should NEVER be a need to assign new TCP
> Option kind codepoints to experiments.
>
> To be explicit, I mean to follow 6994 and request an Experimental code
> point that can be used together with TCP Option kinds of 253 and/or 254.

Oops, I see!

(I see that it was right to include what I understood above...)

Thank you very much for the clarification.

Cheers,

Carles


> Joe
>
>