The IESG has approved the following document: - 'TCP User Timeout Option ' <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-uto-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-uto-11.txt Technical Summary: This document calls for an option to all TCP endpoints to request peers to set the user-timeout to a particular value. The motivation behind this option is hosts that understand that they will be unavailable for a lengthy period of time and can thus inform their peer of this phenomenon such that the peer can prevent the normal connection aborting procedures from reaping the connection. The information is advisory and therefore the peer is still able to abort the connection (e.g., in times of resource contention). Working Group Summary Given that the information exchanged is advisory, the TCPM WG has consensus that this option is perfectly reasonable. Document Quality The document was reviewed for quality by a large number of TCPM WG members. Personel Responsible AD was Magnus Westerlund. WG shepherd is Wesley Eddy. Note to RFC Editor New paragraph as the second paragraph in section 4.1: Implementations may want to exchange UTO options on the very first data segments after the three-way handshake to determine if such a middlebox exists on the path. When segments carrying UTO options are persistently lost, an implementation should turn off the use of UTO for the connection. When the connection itself is reset, an implementation may be able to transparently re-establish another connection instance that does not use UTO before any application data has been successfully exchanged. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
