A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Transport Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Byte and Packet Congestion Notification Author(s) : Bob Briscoe Jukka Manner Filename : draft-ietf-tsvwg-byte-pkt-congest-11.txt Pages : 46 Date : 2013-08-01 Abstract: This document provides recommendations of best current practice for dropping or marking packets using any active queue management (AQM) algorithm, including random early detection (RED), BLUE, pre- congestion notification (PCN) and newer schemes such as CoDel and PIE. We give three strong recommendations: (1) packet size should be taken into account when transports detect and respond to congestion indications, (2) packet size should not be taken into account when network equipment creates congestion signals (marking, dropping), and therefore (3) in the specific case of RED, the byte-mode packet drop variant that drops fewer small packets should not be used. This memo updates RFC 2309 to deprecate deliberate preferential treatment of small packets in AQM algorithms. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-byte-pkt-congest There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-byte-pkt-congest-11 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-tsvwg-byte-pkt-congest-11 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt