The IESG has received a request from the Diameter Maintenance and Extensions WG (dime) to consider the following document: - 'Diameter Overload Control Requirements' <draft-ietf-dime-overload-reqs-10.txt> as Informational 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 2013-08-16. 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 When a Diameter server or agent becomes overloaded, it needs to be able to gracefully reduce its load, typically by informing clients to reduce sending traffic for some period of time. Otherwise, it must continue to expend resources parsing and responding to Diameter messages, possibly resulting in congestion collapse. The existing Diameter mechanisms, listed in Section 4 are not sufficient for this purpose. This document describes the limitations of the existing mechanisms in Section 5. Requirements for new overload management mechanisms are provided in Section 7. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dime-overload-reqs/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dime-overload-reqs/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
