--- 1/draft-ietf-tsvwg-highspeed-00.txt 2006-02-05 02:04:50.000000000 +0100 +++ 2/draft-ietf-tsvwg-highspeed-01.txt 2006-02-05 02:04:50.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ Internet Engineering Task Force Sally Floyd INTERNET-DRAFT ICSI - Expires: January 2004 + Expires: February 2004 HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows Status of this Memo - The proposals in this document are experimental. We believe they - are safe for deployment in the current Internet, but they do not - represent a consensus that this is the best method for high-speed - congestion control. In particular, we note that alternative - experimental proposals are likely to be forthcoming, and it is not - well understood how the proposals in this document will interact - with such alternative proposals. + The proposals in this document are experimental. While they may be + deployed in the current Internet, they do not represent a consensus + that this is the best method for high-speed congestion control. In + particular, we note that alternative experimental proposals are + likely to be forthcoming, and it is not well understood how the + proposals in this document will interact with such alternative + proposals. Status of this Document This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. @@ -48,20 +48,32 @@ window of 83,333 segments, and a packet drop rate of at most one congestion event every 5,000,000,000 packets (or equivalently, at most one congestion event every 1 2/3 hours). This is widely acknowledged as an unrealistic constraint. To address this limitation of TCP, this document proposes HighSpeed TCP, and solicits experimentation and feedback from the wider community. TO BE DELETED BY THE RFC EDITOR UPON PUBLICATION: + Changes from draft-ietf-tsvwg-highspeed-00.txt: + + Changed: + + "The proposals in this document are experimental. We believe + they are safe for deployment in the current Internet, " + + To: + + "The proposals in this document are experimental. While they + may be deployed in the current Internet, " + Changes from draft-floyd-tcp-highspeed-03.txt: Added the section on "Status of this Memo". Added a paragraph to the end of the section on "Deployment issues of HighSpeed TCP" about possible interactions between HighSpeed TCP and other alternative experimental proposals. Changes from draft-floyd-tcp-highspeed-02.txt: @@ -1504,14 +1515,14 @@ } Table 14: Perl Program for computing the window in congestion avoidance. AUTHORS' ADDRESSES Sally Floyd Phone: +1 (510) 666-2989 ICIR (ICSI Center for Internet Research) - Email: floyd@icir.org + Email: floyd@acm.org URL: http://www.icir.org/floyd/ - This draft was created in August 2002. + This draft was created in August 2003.