A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : More Accurate ECN Feedback in TCP Authors : Bob Briscoe Mirja Kühlewind Richard Scheffenegger Filename : draft-kuehlewind-tcpm-accurate-ecn-05.txt Pages : 38 Date : 2015-10-19 Abstract: Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) is a mechanism where network nodes can mark IP packets instead of dropping them to indicate incipient congestion to the end-points. Receivers with an ECN- capable transport protocol feed back this information to the sender. ECN is specified for TCP in such a way that only one feedback signal can be transmitted per Round-Trip Time (RTT). Recently, new TCP mechanisms like Congestion Exposure (ConEx) or Data Center TCP (DCTCP) need more accurate ECN feedback information whenever more than one marking is received in one RTT. This document specifies an experimental scheme to provide more than one feedback signal per RTT in the TCP header. Given TCP header space is scarce, it overloads the three existing ECN-related flags in the TCP header and provides additional information in a new TCP option. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kuehlewind-tcpm-accurate-ecn/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kuehlewind-tcpm-accurate-ecn-05 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-kuehlewind-tcpm-accurate-ecn-05 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