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

[Megan Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

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 
> 
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> 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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> --------------------------------------
> 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
> 
>