The IESG has received a request from the RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques WG (rmcat) to consider the following document: - 'Congestion Control Requirements For RMCAT' <draft-ietf-rmcat-cc-requirements-05.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 2014-08-13. 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 Congestion control is needed for all data transported across the Internet, in order to promote fair usage and prevent congestion collapse. The requirements for interactive, point-to-point real time multimedia, which needs low-delay, semi-reliable data delivery, are different from the requirements for bulk transfer like FTP or bursty transfers like Web pages. Due to an increasing amount of RTP-based real-time media traffic on the Internet (e.g. with the introduction of WebRTC[I-D.ietf-rtcweb-overview]), it is especially important to ensure that this kind of traffic is congestion controlled. This document describes a set of requirements that can be used to evaluate other congestion control mechanisms in order to figure out their fitness for this purpose, and in particular to provide a set of possible requirements for realtime media congestion avoidance technique. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rmcat-cc-requirements/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rmcat-cc-requirements/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
