The IESG has approved the following document: - 'SCTP-PF: Quick Failover Algorithm in SCTP' (draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover-16.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transport Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Spencer Dawkins and Martin Stiemerling. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover/ Technical Summary This describes a standards-track procedure for SCTP to support of failover when working with a multi-homed SCTP end-point: SCTP supports multi-homing. However, when the failover operation specified in RFC4960 is followed, there can be significant delay and performance degradation in the data transfer path failover. To overcome this problem this document specifies a quick failover algorithm (SCTP-PF) based on the introduction of a Potentially Failed (PF) state in SCTP Path Management. The document also specifies a dormant state operation of SCTP. This dormant state operation is required to be followed by an SCTP-PF implementation, but it may equally well be applied by a standard RFC4960 SCTP implementation. Additionally, the document introduces an alternative switchback operation mode called Primary Path Switchover that will be beneficial in certain situations. This mode of operation applies to both a standard RFC4960 SCTP implementation as well as to a SCTP-PF implementation. The procedures defined in the document require only minimal modifications to the RFC4960 specification. The procedures are sender-side only and do not impact the SCTP receiver. Working Group Summary Nothing out of the ordinary happened during work on this draft. Document Quality Gorry Fairhurst performed an extensive review of -05 version. The working group requested a change of intended status (from Experimental to Proposed Standard) during document development, and this was approved. Personnel Gorry Fairhurst is the document shepherd. Spencer Dawkins is the responsible AD.
