Re: [tcpm] Protocol Action: 'TCP Extensions for High Performance' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis-21.txt)

"Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> Wed, 16 April 2014 12:31 UTC

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Thread-Topic: [tcpm] Protocol Action: 'TCP Extensions for High Performance' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis-21.txt)
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And thank you Lloyd for all the work you put into getting this done.

Lars

On 2014-4-16, at 4:42, l.wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote:

> And here's a first cut at that TCP Extensions draft, in 1993:
> http://www.isocws.isoc.org/inet98/doc/rstevens/tcplw-extensions.txt
> 
> getting this published in only slightly over twenty years is quite
> an achievement, given that the transport area is very underresourced
> compared to other areas, and short on expertise and manpower.
> 
> (I have a few promising drafts coming along nicely at the six-year mark.
> Still time to mature.)
> 
> Congrats! Go team!
> 
> Lloyd Wood
> http://about.me/lloydwood
> 
> On 14 Apr 2014, at 23:36, The IESG wrote:
> 
>> The IESG has approved the following document:
>> - 'TCP Extensions for High Performance'
>> (draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis-21.txt) as Proposed Standard
>> 
>> This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions
>> Working Group.
>> 
>> The IESG contact persons are Martin Stiemerling and Spencer Dawkins.
>> 
>> A URL of this Internet Draft is:
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Technical Summary
>> 
>> 	This document replaces RFC 1323, making minor fixes and
>> 	clarifications to the original document. The document
>> 	specifies three performance enhancing extensions to TCP, using
>> 	two TCP options. The first is window scale option, that allows
>> 	representation of receive window sizes larger than 2^16 bytes
>> 	originally allowed by the 16-bit window field. The second
>> 	option is TCP timestamps option that allows round-trip time
>> 	measurement on each TCP segment, and third is an algorithm to
>> 	detect and reject old duplicate segments that happen to match
>> 	the current TCP window (Protect Against Wrapped Sequence
>> 	numbers).
>> 
>> 
>> Working Group Summary
>> 
>> 	This document has been a chartered TCPM working group item
>> 	since year 2008. It has not been under significant
>> 	controversy, but the progress has been slow because of earlier
>> 	lack of WG (and authoring) cycles. Since adding a new
>> 	co-editor, the progress on the draft became faster in the
>> 	working group.
>> 
>> Document Quality
>> 
>> 	The predecessor of this document, RFC 1323, was published in
>> 	1992, and is deployed in most TCP implementations. This
>> 	document includes fixes and clarifications based on the gained
>> 	deployment experience. The recent versions of the document
>> 	have been reviewed and discussed by multiple working group
>> 	participants.
>> 
>> 
>> Personnel
>> 
>> 	Document Shepherd is Pasi Sarolahti.
>> 	Reponsible Area Director is Martin Stiemerling.
>> 
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