The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm' (draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc3782-bis-05.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Wesley Eddy and David Harrington. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc3782-bis/ Technical Summary >From the abstract: RFC 5681 documents the following four intertwined TCP congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. RFC 5681 explicitly allows certain modifications of these algorithms, including modifications that use the TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) option (RFC 2883), and modifications that respond to "partial acknowledgments" (ACKs which cover new data, but not all the data outstanding when loss was detected) in the absence of SACK. This document describes a specific algorithm for responding to partial acknowledgments, referred to as NewReno. This response to partial acknowledgments was first proposed by Janey Hoe. This document obsoletes RFC 3782. Working Group Summary Nothing exceptional occurred during the working group process for this document. Document Quality This document is an update to TCP NewReno, to address issues that have been found with existing RFC 3782 implementations, of which there are several. In the Acknowledgments section: Many thanks to Anil Agarwal, Mark Allman, Armando Caro, Jeffrey Hsu, Vern Paxson, Kacheong Poon, Keyur Shah, and Bernie Volz for detailed feedback on this document or on its precursor, RFC 2582. Jeffrey Hsu provided clarifications on the handling of the recover variable that were applied to RFC 3782 as errata, and now are in Section 8 of this document. Yoshifumi Nishida contributed a modification to the fast recovery algorithm to account for the case in which flightsize is 0 when the TCP sender leaves fast recovery, and the TCP receiver uses delayed acknowledgments. Alexander Zimmermann provided several suggestions to improve the clarity of the document. Personnel David Borman (david.borman@windriver.com) is the document shepherd. Wes Eddy (wes@mti-systems.com) is the responsible AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
