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Title : Updating TCP to support Rate-Limited Traffic
Author(s) : Godred Fairhurst
Arjuna Sathiaseelan
Filename : draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv-05.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 2012-09-13
Abstract:
This document proposes an update to RFC 5681 to address issues that
arise when TCP is used to support traffic that exhibits periods where
the sending rate is limited by the application rather than the
congestion window. It updates TCP to allow a TCP sender to restart
quickly following either an idle or rate-limited interval. This
method is expected to benefit applications that send rate-limited
traffic using TCP, while also providing an appropriate response if
congestion is experienced.
It also evaluates TCP Congestion Window Validation, CWV, an IETF
experimental specification defined in RFC 2861, and concludes that
CWV sought to address important issues, but failed to deliver a
widely used solution. This document therefore proposes an update to
the status of RFC 2861 by recommending it is moved from Experimental
to Historic status, and that it is replaced by the current
specification.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv-05
A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv-05
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