A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : On the Need for Transport Protocol Profiles & Investigating New Evolution Tracks Authors : Mohamed Boucadair David Binet Christian Jacquenet Luis M. Contreras Yiu Lee Filename : draft-boucadair-transport-protocols-01.txt Pages : 17 Date : 2015-03-06 Abstract: The world of Internet transport protocols is changing, after decades of TCP and UDP operation. Several proposals have been submitted for the past years (and counting) to introduce other transport protocols that aim at reducing the web latency of that of TCP or avoiding the burden of the various middle-boxes (NATs, firewalls, for one) encountered along the communication path. Such initiatives, although not new, are motivated by the complexity of some (non-transparent) networking functions. This document advocates for the definition of transport profiles and the need to document recommendations for middleboxes, including Performance Enhancement Proxies (PEPs) behaviors. A collaboration among the involved players (service providers, vendors) is required to soften the current complications encountered in the Internet at large. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-boucadair-transport-protocols/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-boucadair-transport-protocols-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-boucadair-transport-protocols-01 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