Hi all,
We had a short discussion in the TSVAREA meeting in Stockholm about
the current status of the DCCP working group (see minutes at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/75/minutes/tsvarea.txt)
. The chartered work items have now been done, but my take from the
discussion in Stockholm was that the working group should not be
closed just yet, but rather wait and see how DCCP deployment
progresses and whether that requires supporting actions by the working
group. In addition there have been proposals to take on some new work,
or to revive old expired work as follows:
* MulTFRC (see draft at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-welzl-multfrc-00)
* User Guide for DCCP (see mail to list by Jukka on July 30)
* Possible work to support multipath transport (see mail to list by
Bryan on July 29)
* Mechanisms to support probing for higher bandwidth (same mail by
Bryan on July 29 + follow-up discussion)
The chairs would have to decide by September 14 if DCCP is going to
meet in Hiroshima and how much time we would need. Therefore it would
be helpful, if you sent us an early note within a week or so to tell
if you'd wish to give a talk in the meeting. For any proposed talk
there should be an up-to-date Internet-draft submitted before the cut-
off deadline (October 19 for initial drafts), and in the interest of
having a useful meeting, people should read the drafts and discuss
them on the mailing list already before the meeting. Even better, if
there was some evidence by September 14 that there is an active
community (i.e., more than a couple of co-authors) interested in
taking proposed work forward by authoring or reviewing it, that would
help us a lot in deciding about scheduling a meeting for Hiroshima.
PS. You might have noticed from the mailing list announcements that
two new DCCP RFCs were published in August. Many thanks to Sally and
Eddie for the work on CCID-4 (now RFC 5622), and to Gorry and Arjuna
for DCCP-Quickstart (RFC 5634)!
- Pasi
