The IESG has received a request from the Multipath TCP WG (mptcp) to consider the following document: - 'TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses' <draft-ietf-mptcp-multiaddressed-09.txt> as 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 2012-08-15. 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 TCP/IP communication is currently restricted to a single path per connection, yet multiple paths often exist between peers. The simultaneous use of these multiple paths for a TCP/IP session would improve resource usage within the network, and thus improve user experience through higher throughput and improved resilience to network failure. Multipath TCP provides the ability to simultaneously use multiple paths between peers. This document presents a set of extensions to traditional TCP to support multipath operation. The protocol offers the same type of service to applications as TCP (i.e. reliable bytestream), and provides the components necessary to establish and use multiple TCP flows across potentially disjoint paths. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mptcp-multiaddressed/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mptcp-multiaddressed/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1842/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1843/
