Re: [tsvwg] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC3390 (4583)

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 1/6/2016 11:09 AM, Mark Allman wrote:
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> This is clearly a correction to the document.  The intent of the
> authors and the WG was never to allow the initial window to be
> higher than given in the document.  (It was hard enough to get folks
> to accept an initial window of 2-4 segments.  It'd have been
> impossible to get the community to agree to leave an explicit escape
> hatch for larger values.)
> 
> This error also applies to RFC 2414 (where the text originated).

Agreed, but since 2414 is obsoleted by 3390, do we also need an errata
there too?

Joe


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> allman
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>> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC3390,
>> "Increasing TCP's Initial Window".
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>> You may review the report below and at:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3390&eid=4583
>>
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>> Type: Technical
>> Reported by: Joe Touch <[e-mail]>
>>
>> Section: 1.
>>
>> Original Text
>> -------------
>>    This increased initial window is optional: a TCP MAY start with a
>>    larger initial window.  However, we expect that most general-purpose
>>    TCP implementations would choose to use the larger initial congestion
>>    window given in equation (1) above.
>>
>> Corrected Text
>> --------------
>>    This increased initial window is optional: a TCP MAY start with a
>>    smaller initial window.  However, we expect that most general-purpose
>>    TCP implementations would choose to use the larger initial congestion
>>    window given in equation (1) above.
>>
>> Notes
>> -----
>> The MAY allows use of values smaller than this document allows, not larger.
>>
>> Instructions:
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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
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