The IESG has received a request from the Low Extra Delay Background Transport WG (ledbat) to consider the following document: - 'Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)' <draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion-09.txt> as an Experimental RFC 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 2012-05-07. 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 LEDBAT is an experimental delay-based congestion control algorithm that attempts to utilize the available bandwidth on an end-to-end path while limiting the consequent increase in queueing delay on the path. LEDBAT uses changes in one-way delay measurements to limit congestion that the flow itself induces in the network. LEDBAT is designed for use by background bulk-transfer applications; it is designed to be no more aggressive than TCP congestion control and to yield in the presence of any competing flows when latency builds, thus limiting interference with the network performance of the competing flows. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
