Re: [tcpm] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.txt

[Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]>]

Richard,see [BB] inline.

On 06/02/2022 23:00, Scheffenegger, Richard wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> could it be, that the first "data" row and column in this table are
> parially transposed?
>
> In the case of sending a Non-ECT SYN, but getting an indication of a
> received CE on the SYN-ACK, why would you respond to that indication of
> an incorrect CE marking? (With the response being, that the cwnd would
> probably never grow beyond 1 or 2 packets per RTT, or possibly diminish
> to n RTTs per packet, one a stack supports such low rates).
>
> I am thinking of the most common probable cause - a middlebox
> unconditionally overriding the full TOS byte, and simply setting both
> rightmost bits continously.
>
> Such a path would be rendered utterly unusable for an AccECN session, 
> not?
>
> So at least that case would be a ND in your nomenclature.

[BB] The full story for the first row (Not-ECT to ECT/CE transitions) 
was pointed out by Vidhi, and discussed in my previous response to her:

  * Not-ECT to CE might have been two transitions
      o Not-ECT to ECT at a broken ToS remarker (prob first hop);
      o ECT to CE at a subsequent bottleneck;
  * We can only assume that a ToS remarking transition will be
    consistent. The congestion part could be transient.
      o So /initially/ all cases where Not-ECT changes to anything else
        need to be treated as a change to ECT;
      o But then there's /another/ test, which disables response to CE
        if there's solid CE marking;
      o I.e. NR, that potentially becomes ND later.


>
> In the column - if the IP ECN is bleached, why disable response to CE
> (if that is unlike to come back, as long as the session traverses the
> bleaching path)? A "NR" seems more logical here in case of path changes?

[BB] The thinking was that, if an ECT SYN becomes Not-ECT, then 
subsequently the sender only sends Not-ECT data, if that becomes CE, it 
seems pretty likely that is not a real congestion marking, whether 
there's a path change or not (because Not-ECT should remain Not-ECT).

>
> But again, all these ins-and-outs should be discussed in a different 
> draft.

[BB] Yes, deployment experience is needed before anything definitive can 
be said about fallback, because there will be cases where the 
recommendation depends on which of a number of possible odd behaviours 
is most likely.

>
> I fully agree, that only the normative response of the AccECN feedback
> mechanism has to be fully defined - the two bullet point is exactly what
> I expect to be stated.

[BB] Great. I'll write that up.


Bob

>
> Regards,
>
>    Richard
>
>
> Am 06.02.2022 um 23:27 schrieb Bob Briscoe:
>> Richard,
>>
>> Indeed, I recently discovered I had missed an item that I added to my
>> ToDo list in Mar 2021, based on a conversation between Gorry and Mirja
>> where they both made the same point - that fall-back behaviour after
>> discovering ECN mangling ought to be non-normative in this draft,
>> because it's beyond the scope of the new feedback mechanism:
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tcpm/00URm1uwptgrAzKq96T6KSh8dQ4/
>>
>> We do need to say the following normatively in "Testing for Mangling of
>> the IP/ECN Field" because they are relevant to feedback, the Data 
>> Sender:
>> * remains in AccECN mode
>> * MUST continue to feed back any ECN markings on arriving packets.
>>
>> BTW, Vidhi, the text you quoted was from §2 on "Protocol Overview and
>> Rationale". That was meant to be an example of why it is useful for the
>> handshake to give feedback on exactly which IP-ECN codepoint arrived. It
>> wasn't meant to be a full spec. So I'll make it clearer that it's only
>> an example, rather than try to make it comprehensive, which isn't
>> appropriate at that point in the doc.
>>
>> Nonetheless, your points are correct, but if they are dealt with anyway,
>> they should be dealt with in §3.2.2.3. "Testing for Mangling of the
>> IP/ECN Field" where these scenarios are already covered (except for the
>> congestion response, which was silently left out of scope):
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#section-3.2.2.3 
>>
>>
>>
>> We could just say that the questions of whether to set ECT for
>> subsequent packets, and whether to respond to feedback of CE markings
>> are beyond the scope of the draft. I think we should, but I think we
>> should also give some non-normative advice on what to do. It can only be
>> interim advice, not normative requirements. Both because it's out of
>> scope, and because the best behaviour and the alternatives will depend
>> on deployment experience. So they shouldn't be written normatively in a
>> Proposed Standard yet.
>>
>> We will do what the WG wants, but assuming it agrees to including
>> non-normative advice, following from your (Richard's) list of cases,
>> here's a full matrix. I don't propose this matrix should go in the
>> AccECN draft - it's just for this email, to check every case is covered.
>>
>>
>>     Feedback in SYN/ACK of SYN's IP-ECN
>> IP-ECN on SYN     Not-ECT     ECT(0)     ECT(1)     CE
>> Not ECT     √     NR     NR     NR
>> ECT(0)     ND     √     √     √
>> ECT(1)     ND     CU
>>     √     √
>> CE     n/a     n/a     n/a     n/a
>>
>>
>> Key:
>> √       Valid response
>> NR    Non-normative advice: Set *N*ot-ECT for subsequent packets, but
>> continue to *R*espond to CE feedback
>> ND    Non-normative advice: Set *N*ot-ECT for subsequent packets, and
>> *D*isable response to CE feedback
>> CU    Currently unused transition (not listed as invalid in the draft)
>> n/a    not applicable in the AccECN spec, in which there is never a case
>> where the sender sets CE when sending a packet.
>>
>> In the draft we don't need to mention any cases where CE is sent (but a
>> draft on fall-back probably would, because the sender might set CE to
>> test the path). We can cover the other cases with two groups of invalid
>> transitions: those where the SYN (or SYN-ACK) arriving at the receiver
>> appears to have been
>> i) ECN-capable
>> ii) Not-ECN-capable.
>>
>> I propose to also say that details (like what 'subsequent packets'
>> implies about how long this behaviour continues) are for future study.
>>
>> I'll try to write some text and propose it to this list. Perhaps it
>> should be in a new appendix?
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On 05/02/2022 12:01, Scheffenegger, Richard wrote:
>>> Vidhi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading the draft very closely!
>>>
>>> Well, in the non-ECT SYN case, where the SYNACK indicates an ECT (ect0,
>>> ect1, ce) is the obvious - and fully semantically correct - use case of
>>> that possible use.
>>>
>>> For the set of three codepoints (ECT0, ECT1, CE) the only other 
>>> possible
>>> valid detection scenario would be if a SYN+CE is sent (deliberately,
>>> althought one can argue that a sender should not originate CE-marked
>>> packets), but a SYNACK without CE is returned (full or partial
>>> bleaching). At least under the current RFC3168 definition of IP ECN
>>> codepoints.
>>>
>>> allowed transitions:
>>> nonECT -> nonECT
>>>
>>> ECT0 -> ECT0
>>> ECT0 -> ECT1
>>> ECT0 -> CE
>>>
>>> ECT1 -> ECT1
>>> ECT1 -> ECT0 (possibly)
>>> ECT1 -> CE
>>>
>>> CE -> CE
>>>
>>>
>>> Thinking about this aspect more, I am now unsure, if the higher level
>>> functions, such as detection of IP ECN codepoint mangling, or 
>>> validating
>>> across multiple RTTs, should be in this document - or not rather be 
>>> in a
>>> separate draft, in order to facilitate independent implementation and
>>> improvement of mechanisms in that space.
>>>
>>> However, the above table of allowed IP ECN transistions may be updated
>>> independently of AccECN - and performing extensive checks as part of a
>>> signal protocol ossifies this IMHO.
>>>
>>> As a middle ground, perhaps having these descriptions in a 
>>> non-normative
>>> section, clearly stating these to be examples of what an impemented
>>> could choose to do?
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> Am 05.02.2022 um 02:14 schrieb Vidhi Goel:
>>>> I like your response for all the points. I can review the diff for the
>>>> proposed changes, if you’d like before committing them to the draft.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I want to add a new comment for this text,
>>>>
>>>> If a TCP client has set the SYN to Not-ECT, but
>>>>     receives feedback that the IP-ECN field on the SYN arrived with a
>>>>     different codepoint, it can detect such middlebox interference and
>>>>     send Not-ECT for the rest of the connection.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This statement holds good for Not-ECT but doesn’t if lets say the SYN
>>>> was ECT0 or ECT1 as those could be marked CE and still be 
>>>> valid. Should
>>>> we add a statement for ECT marked SYN as well?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vidhi
>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 4, 2022, at 5:44 AM, Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]
>>>>> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Vidhi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've increased the table of contents to tocdepth = "4" which might
>>>>> help find the relevant sections better, because a lot of the meat in
>>>>> this draft is under sections 3.2.2 (ACE) and 3.2.3 (Option).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've responded below, but I'd prefer it if you would say these things
>>>>> on the list, so we have a better justification for changing the 
>>>>> draft.
>>>>> Reviewing a draft that has just be re-posted shouldn't imply anything
>>>>> about whether Apple is implementing the draft or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> (BTW, regarding the proposed change to the initial value of r.e1b, I
>>>>> was going to send that  to the list once co-authors agreed to it. But
>>>>> it would be nice if some of the edits were not self-generated.)
>>>>>
>>>>> See [BB] inline for responses (which I'll repeat if you send to the
>>>>> list).
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/02/2022 07:37, Vidhi Goel wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Bob and authors,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have read the draft a few times and will send my extensive review
>>>>>> at a later point. But right now, I want to ask some critical things
>>>>>> that an implementation could benefit from.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The draft says,
>>>>>> /If a TCP client has set the SYN to Not-ECT, but/
>>>>>> /   receives feedback that the IP-ECN field on the SYN arrived 
>>>>>> with a/
>>>>>> /   different codepoint, it can detect such middlebox interference
>>>>>> and/
>>>>>> /   send Not-ECT for the rest of the connection/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. On the forward path from client to server, the client will revert
>>>>>> to Not-ECT when it sees for example, that it sent a Non-ECT SYN but
>>>>>> received ACE encoding other than 0 1 0. What does the client do in
>>>>>> the last ACK of the 3WHS -
>>>>>>  a. does it stay in AccECN mode and still send AccECN encoding based
>>>>>> on the IP code point of SYN-ACK (Table 4)? This would mean that
>>>>>> client won’t participate in ECN on the sender half of the connection
>>>>>> and only provide AccECN feedback to the server as a receiver.
>>>>>>  b.  does it disable AccECN mode and set ACE= 0 0 0 so that a server
>>>>>> in AccECN mode can disable ECN based on Table4?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While writing this, I realized that the intention is probably a.
>>>>>> Could you confirm? Also, when the sender sets Not-ECT in its data
>>>>>> packets, it should also disable acting upon any ACE feedback as we
>>>>>> could still receive false ACE feedback from the server if the
>>>>>> network, lets say, changed 00 (not ECT) to 01(ECT1). If you 
>>>>>> agree, we
>>>>>> should add some text around this. Based on the current text, the
>>>>>> sender will always respond to the ACE feedback even if it sends
>>>>>> Not-ECT.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TBH, this is a complicated scenario, where sender said to the 
>>>>>> network
>>>>>> - I don’t trust you so I can’t use ECN. Feel free to drop my 
>>>>>> packets.
>>>>>> And the network mangles the IP to ECT1 and then set CE (when
>>>>>> congested) which would be feedback’ed from the receiver. Now, the
>>>>>> packet wasn’t dropped which it should have been. So, is it better to
>>>>>> just ignore this feedback because sender doesn’t trust the 
>>>>>> network or
>>>>>> just act on it and reduce cwnd in order to reduce congestion in the
>>>>>> network somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> [BB] Your points are all good ones.
>>>>> I'll address this last complex scenario first, because it has
>>>>> implications for the earlier questions. First I'll define some
>>>>> terminology:
>>>>>
>>>>> Simple mangling scenario:
>>>>>
>>>>>   * some network function, e.g. broken Diffserv ToS-byte remarking,
>>>>>     illegally remarks a Not-ECT  SYN to CE.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your complex mangling scenario, repeated here:
>>>>>
>>>>>   * some network function, e.g. broken Diffserv ToS-byte remarking,
>>>>>     illegally remarks a Not-ECT SYN to ECT0 or ECT1,
>>>>>   * then congestion at a subsequent bottleneck is marking some
>>>>> packets CE
>>>>>
>>>>> Then potentially the client could tailor its behaviour after 
>>>>> sending a
>>>>> Not-ECT SYN, If the SYN/ACK feedback is
>>>>>
>>>>>  1. ECT: disable sending ECT, but continue responding to ECN feedback
>>>>>  2. CE, disable sending ECT, and disable response to ECN feedback
>>>>>
>>>>> However, this is uncertain, because CE feedback on the SYN/ACK could
>>>>> indicate either the simple or the complex mangling scenario.
>>>>>
>>>>> A simpler alternative would be to always continue responding to ECN
>>>>> feedback. Rationale:
>>>>>
>>>>>   * Whether case #1 or #2, assume that mangling of the SYN might have
>>>>>     been Not-ECT to ECT, even if the feedback off the SYN is CE.
>>>>>   * Then as the connection progresses, if /all/ feedback is CE,
>>>>>     there's already a recommendation to fall-back to disabling
>>>>>     congestion response.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we do this, I think we ought to say "SHOULD continue to respond to
>>>>> ECN feedback", not "MUST".
>>>>>
>>>>> And we'll need to put this all to the WG.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.a) Now back to the beginning of your point. The text you quote is
>>>>> from §2.5 which is in the non-normative "Overview and Rationale"
>>>>> section (§2).
>>>>> You really need the normative text from:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           3.2.2.3.
>>>>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#section-3.2.2.3>Testing 
>>>>>
>>>>>           for Mangling of the IP/ECN Field
>>>>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#name-testing-for-mangling-of-the> 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> where it says (end of 1st para):
>>>>>
>>>>>     " ...for the remainder of the connection the client MUST NOT send
>>>>>     ECN-capable packets, but it MUST continue to feed back any ECN
>>>>>     markings on arriving packets."
>>>>>
>>>>> So, you're right, the answer is (a).
>>>>> It can't be (b), because, once in AccECN mode, 000 on the ACE field
>>>>> just becomes a counter value, and no longer negotiates the feedback
>>>>> mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.b) As per the above, let's conservatively assume complex mangling.
>>>>> So, at the end of the first para quoted above I suggest we add:
>>>>>
>>>>>     " ...for the remainder of the connection the client MUST NOT send
>>>>>     ECN-capable packets *but**it**SHOULD continue to respond to ECN
>>>>>     feedback even though **it **is no longer sending ECN-capable
>>>>>     packets (see reasoning below)**. T**he client**MUST remain in the
>>>>>     same feedback mode and***it MUST continue to feed back any ECN
>>>>>     markings on arriving packets."
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll do the same for next para about the server.
>>>>> I'll work out some text for the reasoning, but I won't give it here.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are two other cases where it disables sending ECT, which don't
>>>>> say whether it continues to respond to congestion:
>>>>>
>>>>>   * "Testing for Mangling" section, penultimate para, where it's
>>>>>     receiving solid CE:
>>>>>     "Once a Data Sender has entered AccECN mode it SHOULD check
>>>>>     whether all feedback received for the first three or four rounds
>>>>>     indicated that every packet it sent was CE-marked. If so, for the
>>>>>     remainder of the connection, the Data Sender SHOULD NOT send
>>>>>     ECN-capable packets*and it SHOULD NOT respond to ECN feedback*,
>>>>>     but *it MUST remain in the same feedback mode and *it MUST
>>>>>     continue to feed back any ECN markings on arriving packets*(in 
>>>>> its
>>>>>     role as Data Receiver)*."
>>>>>   * Next section "Zeroing of the ACE Field", 2nd para:
>>>>>     "If the value of this ACE field is zero (0b000), the Data Sender
>>>>>     disables sending ECN-capable packets for the remainder of the
>>>>>     half-connection by setting the IP/ECN field in all subsequent
>>>>>     packets to Not-ECT, *but**it**SHOULD continue to respond to ECN
>>>>>     feedback even though **it **is no longer sending ECN-capable
>>>>>     packets.* *It MUST also remain in the same feedback mode and it
>>>>>     MUST continue to feed back any ECN markings on arriving packets
>>>>>     (in its role as Data Receiver).*"
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll also add reasoning (in the zeroing section, it already says that
>>>>> ACE=0b000 is not an unambiguous indication of mangling).
>>>>>
>>>>> And this prompts me to edit the bullet in an earlier section about 
>>>>> the
>>>>> obligation of a sender to respond to congestion feedback:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         3.1.5.
>>>>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#section-3.1.5>Implications 
>>>>>
>>>>>         of AccECN Mode
>>>>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#name-implications-of-accecn-mode> 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     "It is still obliged to respond appropriately to AccECN feedback
>>>>>     that indicates there were ECN marks on *ECN-capable *packets it
>>>>>     had previously sent."
>>>>>
>>>>> And I'll add a bullet:
>>>>>
>>>>>     "*If the sender chooses not to send ECN-capable packets (e.g.
>>>>>     because path traversal of the ECN field is suspect), it can 
>>>>> ignore
>>>>>     any **ECN **feedback about those packets if it is certain that it
>>>>>     cannot be valid (see Section 3.2.2, which gives normative
>>>>>     requirements for certain specific cases).*"
>>>>>
>>>>> I've said 'can' rather than 'MUST' because it's hard to cover all
>>>>> cases, e.g. single packets without ECT when it's not clear whether 
>>>>> the
>>>>> feedback covered another packet that was ECT.
>>>>>
>>>>> How does all this sound?
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. On the reverse path from server to client, if a server sends a
>>>>>> Not-ECT SYN-ACK and receives ACE handshake encoding on last 
>>>>>> ACK other
>>>>>> than 0 1 0, there is no text like above that says server should send
>>>>>> Not-ECT for the rest of the connection (or at least I didn’t find
>>>>>> it). I think the server should also do same as client as the two
>>>>>> paths could be different. One could make it more complicated by
>>>>>> saying, if both client and server decide to not use ECN on their
>>>>>> corresponding sender half, then ECN should be disabled but let’s 
>>>>>> talk
>>>>>> about that later.
>>>>>
>>>>> [BB] It's in the second para of:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           3.2.2.3.
>>>>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#section-3.2.2.3>Testing 
>>>>>
>>>>>           for Mangling of the IP/ECN Field
>>>>> <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.html#name-testing-for-mangling-of-the> 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. In general, not setting the ECT (ECT0 or ECT1) code point on an
>>>>>> outgoing packet is different from supporting AccECN right as in the
>>>>>> host can still provide AccECN feedback on the receive path.
>>>>>
>>>>> [BB] Yup.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think any further explanation is needed in the above sections?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>> ….
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To be continued if more questions come to my mind.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Vidhi
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Feb 3, 2022, at 7:24 AM, Bob Briscoe <[e-mail]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> tcpm folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This rev to accurate-ecn is the first of two. The second will
>>>>>>> hopefully follow on its heels in the next couple of days.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Diffs between this first rev (-16) and -15:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1.  switches round two fairly large sections, so I've deferred 
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>> changes to a second rev so the diffs won't be masked by the switch
>>>>>>> round of sections.
>>>>>>> Suggested by Ilpo to match the order in which the tests in these
>>>>>>> sections will be executed:
>>>>>>> * Test for mangling the IP-ECN field (now 3.2.2.3),
>>>>>>> * Then test for zeroing the ACE field (now 3.2.2.4).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. Ilpo suggested some clarifications in "3.2.3.2.5. Consistency
>>>>>>> between AccECN Feedback Fields", which is about the receiver of
>>>>>>> feedback ensuring consistency between the mandatory 3-bit ACE field
>>>>>>> and the optional 24-bit counters. In brief (paraphrasing) it
>>>>>>> previously only said "MUST consider both fields", when it is now
>>>>>>> clearer that it actually meant "MUST reconcile both fields", so 
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> there is always a consistent baseline for subsequent ACKs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3. A minor point is added in an appendix about the details that the
>>>>>>> pseudocode doesn't cover.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PS. #2 & #3 were added to the XML ages ago (Jul '21), so you will
>>>>>>> have seen them in the HTML. However, prob due to my clumsiness, the
>>>>>>> posted TXT didn't include them whereas the posted XML did (ironic
>>>>>>> for a section about consistency). In turn, inconsistency was only
>>>>>>> possible because I am having to manually post the TXT for this
>>>>>>> draft, due to an unresolved issue with v3 RFC XML tables.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 03/02/2022 14:43, [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 WG of the IETF.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Title           : More Accurate ECN Feedback in TCP
>>>>>>>>         Authors         : Bob Briscoe
>>>>>>>>                           Mirja Kühlewind
>>>>>>>>                           Richard Scheffenegger
>>>>>>>> Filename        : draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16.txt
>>>>>>>> Pages           : 60
>>>>>>>> Date            : 2022-02-03
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Abstract:
>>>>>>>>    Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) is a mechanism where
>>>>>>>> network
>>>>>>>>    nodes can mark IP packets instead of dropping them to indicate
>>>>>>>>    incipient congestion to the end-points.  Receivers with an ECN-
>>>>>>>>    capable transport protocol feed back this information to the
>>>>>>>> sender.
>>>>>>>>    ECN was originally specified for TCP in such a way that only 
>>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>>    feedback signal can be transmitted per Round-Trip Time (RTT).
>>>>>>>>  Recent
>>>>>>>>    new TCP mechanisms like Congestion Exposure (ConEx), Data
>>>>>>>> Center TCP
>>>>>>>>    (DCTCP) or Low Latency Low Loss Scalable Throughput (L4S) need
>>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>>>    accurate ECN feedback information whenever more than one
>>>>>>>> marking is
>>>>>>>>    received in one RTT.  This document specifies a scheme to 
>>>>>>>> provide
>>>>>>>>    more than one feedback signal per RTT in the TCP header.
>>>>>>>>  Given TCP
>>>>>>>>    header space is scarce, it allocates a reserved header bit
>>>>>>>> previously
>>>>>>>>    assigned to the ECN-Nonce.  It also overloads the two existing
>>>>>>>> ECN
>>>>>>>>    flags in the TCP header.  The resulting extra space is
>>>>>>>> exploited to
>>>>>>>>    feed back the IP-ECN field received during the 3-way 
>>>>>>>> handshake as
>>>>>>>>    well.  Supplementary feedback information can optionally be
>>>>>>>> provided
>>>>>>>>    in a new TCP option, which is never used on the TCP SYN.  The
>>>>>>>>    document also specifies the treatment of this updated TCP wire
>>>>>>>>    protocol by middleboxes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>>>>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is also an htmlized version available at:
>>>>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>>>>>>>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-16
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at rsync.ietf.org
>>>>>>>> <http://rsync.ietf.org>::internet-drafts
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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