Re: [tcpm] Please review 793bis!

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the note about this (indeed important!) document. I unfortunately had a conflict for tcpm, so missed the recent meeting, but I do have some questions about what the group wants to see in reviews of this document.

As expected, much of the text remains unchanged from RFC793. While I understand and agree that it is a non-goal to change any behavior, reading the document does still feel like it is out of place amongst current RFCs from a terminology and organizational standpoint. If this is going to be published as a full STD document, it would be great to have something that also makes the reading clearer and easier for people new to TCP. Specifically, as some people are now working on implementations of TCP for user space stacks or minimal IoT devices, a clean reference would be a fantastic asset.

Some initial examples of changes that came to mind:

- Structure; there is both a Terminology section (3.2) relatively early on, and a glossary (3.11) near the end. It seems more typical nowadays to have a terminology section up front, and just refer inline to supporting documents (like IP, for example).
- Many of the RFCs referenced are the older or obsoleted versions
- Consistency and freshness; some of the terminology feels dated, such as "the local and remote socket numbers" for referring to what is called "port numbers" elsewhere in the document and in current parlance.

There's a lot of possible work to be done here, so before people embark on such reviews, can you clarify which of these categories of input are useful, and would be incorporated?

Best
Tommy

> On Jul 26, 2019, at 11:17 AM, Scharf, Michael <Michael.Scharf@hs-esslingen.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As discussed at IETF 105, we need reviews of draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis in order to complete this important TCPM milestone. The draft can be found at:
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-13
> 
> If you care about TCP (after all you have decided to subscribe the TCPM list for some reason, no?), please try to find some cycles and please have a look at this document.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael
> 
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