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Re: [tcpm] IANA TCP options registry ... policy amendments?

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> Thu, 01 April 2010 13:11 UTC

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> Given the really scarce space in the TCP header
> for options, subtyping seems to be a poor tradeoff.

Revive
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-eddy-tcp-loo

SACK will perform far better with a larger options space.

L.

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