[Tsvwg] Re: Drafts for SCTP extensions

Lyndon:

One little note/correction... after being bashed on
this by one of my co-authors several times :)

Lyndon Ong wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I would like to bring to your attention a set of drafts for extensions to
> SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) that will be discussed at the
> TSV WG session in Minneapolis.  These drafts are:
> 
> draft-ietf-sigtran-usctp-00.txt
> draft-ietf-sigtran-relreq-sctp-00.txt
> draft-ietf-sigtran-srwnd-sctp-00.txt
> draft-ietf-sigtran-addip-sctp-00.txt
> 
> The first document proposes the addition of an unreliable transfer mode to
> SCTP, which allows SCTP to do flow and congestion control across both
> reliable and unreliable streams.
> 
> The second document proposes a generic mechanism for transmitting a control
> "chunk" reliably across an existing SCTP association.  This generic
> mechanism is then applied in the third and fourth proposals.
> 
> The third document proposes an enhancement to SCTP to allow
> receiver-window-based flow control on a per-stream basis, utilizing the
> reliable control chunk mechanism.
> 

This is really not a "flow control" but a "flow limiting" mechanism. The
title was also changed in this version of the document to reflect
that...  :-)

R

> The fourth document proposes an enhancement to SCTP to allow addresses to be
> added and deleted from the address list for an endpoint of an active SCTP
> association, again utilizing the reliable control chunk mechanism.
> 
> Please be aware of these as input to the TSV WG session for general
> discussion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> L. Ong
> Chair, Sigtran WG

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