Re: [tsvwg] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC3390 (4569)

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

FWIW, I don't think it's useful to bother updating obsoleted RFCs, esp.
when their replacement is fixed (or at least has this errata).

Joe

On 1/5/2016 9:42 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> Megan,
> 
> please also raise this as an erratum to the earlier RFC 2414, as allman points out.
> Credit again to Nikolai.
> 
> RFC 2414:
> ***
> A second set of experiments has explored TCP performance over dialup 
> modem links.  In experiments over a 28.8 bps dialup channel [All97a, 
> AHO98],***
> there should be
> 
> ***
> A second set of experiments has explored TCP performance over dialup 
> modem links.  In experiments over a 28.8 kbps dialup channel [All97a, 
> AHO98],***
> 
>  Lloyd Wood [e-mail] http://about.me/lloydwood 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Megan Ferguson <[e-mail]>
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> Subject: Re: [tsvwg] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC3390 (4569)
> 
> Lloyd,
> 
> We believe we have updated as intended.  Please review the report as listed at http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3390&eid=4569 and let us know any objections.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> RFC Editor/mf
> 
> 
> On Dec 22, 2015, at 7:17 PM, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
>> Should actually be lower case k kbps (for 1000, not 1024 or Kibps.)
>>
>> Lloyd Wood
>> [e-mail]
>> http://about.me/lloydwood 
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Tue, 22/12/15, RFC Errata System <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>> Subject: [tsvwg] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC3390 (4569)
>> To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
>> Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
>> Date: Tuesday, 22 December, 2015, 21:18
>>
>> The following errata report has been
>> submitted for RFC3390,
>> "Increasing TCP's Initial Window".
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> You may review the report below and at:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3390&eid=4569
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> Type: Technical
>> Reported by: Nikolai Malykh <[e-mail]>
>>
>> Section: 8.1
>>
>> Original Text
>> -------------
>>    A second set of experiments explored TCP
>> performance over dialup
>>    modem links.  In experiments over a
>> 28.8 bps dialup channel [All97a,
>>    AHO98], a four-segment initial window
>> decreased the transfer time of
>>    a 16KB file by roughly 10%, with no
>> accompanying increase in the drop
>>    rate.  A simulation study [RFC2416]
>> investigated the effects of using
>>    a larger initial window on a host
>> connected by a slow modem link and
>>    a router with a 3 packet buffer.  The
>> study concluded that for the
>>    scenario investigated, the use of larger
>> initial windows was not
>>    harmful to TCP performance.
>>
>> Corrected Text
>> --------------
>>    A second set of experiments explored TCP
>> performance over dialup
>>    modem links.  In experiments over a
>> 28.8 Kbps dialup channel [All97a,
>>    AHO98], a four-segment initial window
>> decreased the transfer time of
>>    a 16KB file by roughly 10%, with no
>> accompanying increase in the drop
>>    rate.  A simulation study [RFC2416]
>> investigated the effects of using
>>    a larger initial window on a host
>> connected by a slow modem link and
>>    a router with a 3 packet buffer.  The
>> study concluded that for the
>>    scenario investigated, the use of larger
>> initial windows was not
>>    harmful to TCP performance.
>>
>> Notes
>> -----
>> Error bit rate - bps instead of Kbps.
>>
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>> necessary. 
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> RFC3390 (draft-ietf-tsvwg-initwin-04)
>> --------------------------------------
>> Title          
>>    : Increasing TCP's Initial Window
>> Publication Date    : October 2002
>> Author(s)           : M.
>> Allman, S. Floyd, C. Partridge
>> Category            : PROPOSED
>> STANDARD
>> Source              :
>> Transport Area Working Group
>> Area              
>> : Transport
>> Stream              :
>> IETF
>> Verifying Party     : IESG
>>
>>