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 Working Group of the IETF. Title : Retransmission Timeout Considerations Author : Mark Allman Filename : draft-ietf-tcpm-rto-consider-00.txt Pages : 7 Date : 2016-02-02 Abstract: Each implementation of a retransmission timeout mechanism must balance correctness and timeliness and therefore no implementation suits all situations. This document provides high-level guidance for retransmission timeout schemes appropriate for general use in the Internet. Within the guidelines, implementations have latitude to define particulars that best address each situation. Terminology The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-rto-consider/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-rto-consider-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt