The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents' (draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-rfc4614bis-08.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Martin Stiemerling and Spencer Dawkins. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-rfc4614bis/ Technical Summary Due to long-term development efforts, understanding TCP is becoming difficult as it consists of many separated RFCs. This document provides a summary of the various documents related to TCP standards, guidelines and best current practices. The objective of the document is to provide a roadmap for TCP standards so that implementers and other parties can reach proper information smoothly and quickly. Working Group Summary This document is the update from RFC4614 which has been published for the same purpose. As the information in RFC4614 is getting stale, there has been consensus in the WG to publish a new version. One discussion point was whether we will keep publishing this type of documents from time to time or find a way to provide up-to-date information through dynamic contents such as Wiki or perpetual I-D. After some discussions, we have concluded to publish this document as an RFC. The consensus was clear as we need further discussions for the other methods and there was no strong support for them. Document Quality The document has been reviewed and discussed by multiple participants in the WG. Personnel Yoshifumi Nishida is the Document Shepherd for this document. The Responsible Area Director is Martin Stiemerling
