Re: [tcpm] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-04.txt

[Jerry Chu <[e-mail]>]

Draft revision for WGLC - changes are concentrated in Abstract, Section 1
Introduction, Section 7 Disadvantages of Larger Initial Windows for the Network,
and Section 12 Usage and Deployment Recommendations.

Jerry

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:14 PM,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> 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 Working Group of the IETF.
>
>        Title           : Increasing TCP's Initial Window
>        Author(s)       : Jerry Chu
>                          Nandita Dukkipati
>                          Yuchung Cheng
>                          Matt Mathis
>        Filename        : draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-04.txt
>        Pages           : 24
>        Date            : 2012-06-28
>
> Abstract:
>   This document proposes an experiment to increase the permitted TCP
>   initial window (IW) from between 2 and 4 segments, as specified in
>   RFC 3390, to 10 segments, with a fallback to the existing
>   recommendation when performance issues are detected. It discusses the
>   motivation behind the increase, the advantages and disadvantages of
>   the higher initial window, and presents results from several large
>   scale experiments showing that the higher initial window improves the
>   overall performance of many web services without resulting in a
>   congestion collapse. The document closes with a discussion of usage
>   and deployment for further experimental purpose recommended by the
>   IETF TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (TCPM) working group.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd
>
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-04
>
> A diff from previous version is available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-04
>
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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