Hi,we've made good progress on the last milestones remaining under the current charter and had started to discuss possible work items for a charter update in Paris and Vancouver.
Based on these discussions, we've produced a proposal for an updated charter (attached below). The reaction from the ADs and some additional reviewers on this has been positive, so we believe this is ready for closer scrutiny by the WG.
Please take a look and send your comments! We've also set aside a good chunk of the Dallas meeting time for a face-to-face discussion on this. Hopefully, we can agree on a charter update in Dallas and forward it to the IESG shortly after.
See you in a few days! Lars <snip>The Datagram Control Protocol working group is maintaining the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). DCCP is a minimal, general-purpose transport protocol that provides two main functions: (1) the establishment, maintenance and tear-down of an unreliable packet flow and (2) congestion control of that packet flow.
The DCCP WG is chartered to work in three areas: * maintenance of the core DCCP protocol * modular extensions to DCCP * promoting the use of DCCP by upper layersIn the first area, the WG focuses on maintenance issues (i.e., bug fixes) to the current DCCP specifications. It also provides the venue for moving the DCCP specifications along the standards track. In order to maintain stable specifications, work in this area is tightly controlled and requires strong justification.
In the second area, the WG identifies and develops modular extensions to the DCCP specifications that increase the usefulness of DCCP. The goal of this work is to make DCCP attractive to upper-layer protocols and applications. The WG will consider both requirements brought to it from external groups that develop or use upper-layer protocols and applications and may also itself identify a limited number of prospective applications and upper-layer protocols to investigate. Work in this area will provide refinements to the existing congestion control schemes currently provided by DCCP and may also include, for example, mobility support for DCCP. Work items will also provide new congestion control profiles, which are variants of existing ones, that better serve certain applications, for example, interactive applications. For entirely new algorithms, the DCCP group may support the IRTF's Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) by specifying concrete implementations of algorithms under serious investigation in the ICCRG.
In the third area, the WG will promote and support the adoption and use of DCCP by upper-layer applications and protocols. This includes specifications for using existing and emerging protocols and applications with DCCP (such as RTP over DCCP and DTLS over DCCP) as well as supporting documents that enhance DCCP deployment and management.
New work items in the latter two areas must satisfy four conditions: (1) WG consensus on the suitability and projected quality of the proposed work item. (2) A core group of WG participants with sufficient energy and expertise to advance the work item according to the proposed schedule. (3) Commitment from the WG as a whole to provide sufficient and timely review of the proposed work item. (4) Agreement by the AD, who, depending on the scope of the proposed work item, may decide that an IESG review is needed first.
The DCCP WG pursues its work in close collaboration with several other IETF WGs and IRTF RGs, including TSVWG, AVT, MMUSIC, BEHAVE, ICCRG and TMRG.
Initial Milestones: Jun 2006 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-media-xx as InformationalJun 2006 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-faster-restart-xx as Experimental
Jun 2006 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-voip-xx as Experimental Jun 2006 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-user-guide-xx as Informational Mar 2007 Complete WGLC of RTP over DCCP as Proposed Standard Jun 2007 Complete WGLC of DTLS over DCCP as Proposed Standard Jun 2007 Complete WGLC of DCCP mobility extensions as Proposed Standard -- Lars Eggert NEC Network Laboratories
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