The IESG has received a request from the Transport Area Working Group WG (tsvwg) to consider the following document: - 'Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Reconfiguration' <draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst-12.txt> as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-11-21. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Many applications that use SCTP want the ability to "reset" a stream. The intention of resetting a stream is to set the numbering sequence of the stream back to 'zero' with a corresponding notification to the upper layer that this has been performed. The applications that want this feature want it so that they can "re-use" streams for different purposes but still utilize the stream sequence number so that the application can track the message flows. Thus, without this feature, a new use of an old stream would result in message numbers greater than expected unless there is a protocol mechanism to "reset the streams back to zero". This document also includes methods for resetting the transport sequence numbers, adding additional streams and resetting all stream sequence numbers. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
