The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (dccp) working group in the Transport Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. +++ Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (dccp) ============================================ Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Thomas Phelan <tphelan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Transport Area Director(s): Magnus Westerlund <magnus.westerlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Transport Area Advisor: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: dccp@xxxxxxxx To Subscribe: dccp-request@xxxxxxxx In Body: (un)subscribe Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dccp/index.html Description of Working Group: The Datagram Congestion 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 four areas: * maintenance of the core DCCP protocol * maintenance of the TFRC congestion control protocol * promoting the use of DCCP by upper layers * modular extensions to DCCP In 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. To maintain stable specifications, work in this area is tightly controlled and requires strong justification. The second area of work, maintains the TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) congestion control protocol. This includes identification of issues, bug fixes, and progression of the specification along the Standards Track. 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. In the fourth 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. This work will provide refinements to the existing congestion control schemes currently provided by DCCP and may also include, for example, mobility support for DCCP. (The acceptance of new work items on mobility requires the approval of the IESG.) This work includes the provision of new congestion control profiles, which are variants of existing ones, that better serve certain applications, for example, interactive applications. The WG may consider to recharter in the future to support the IRTF Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) in the development of new congestion control algorithms through the definition of concrete specifications for these algorithms. 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. Milestones: Jun 2006 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-voip as Experimental Dec 2006 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-faster-restart as Experimental Dec 2006 Complete WGLC "RTP over DCCP" as PS Feb 2007 Complete WGLC "DCCP CCID4: TFRC with Small Packets" as Experimental Feb 2007 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-media as Informational Jun 2007 Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-user-guide as Informational Jun 2007 Complete WGLC "DTLS over DCCP" as PS
