Subject: [tcpm] TCPM working group status

From: Pasi Sarolahti <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:07:25 +0200

Hi,

Here is our understanding of the current working group status. Please let us know if there are corrections or something is missing.

Thanks!

- Pasi, Michael and Yoshifumi

Recent RFCs
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Conservative SACK-based Recovery Algorithm / RFC 3517bis
(draft-ietf-tcpm-3517bis)
* Milestone Target: Proposed Standard in October 2010
* Status: RFC 6675 (August 2012)

WG Items Nearing RFC Publication
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Increasing the Initial Window
(draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd)
* Milestone Target: Experimental in September 2011
* Status: Revised on Feb 22 to address IESG discusses
* Action: IESG to re-review

Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
(draft-ietf-tcpm-proportional-rate-reduction)
* Milestone Target: Experimental in May 2012
* Status: Draft was updated on Feb to address AD comments, IETF Last Call ended Feb 26
* Action: IESG review 

Shared Use of Experimental TCP Options
(draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options)
* Milestone Target: PS in Sept. 2012
* Status: Draft was updated on Feb 25 to address IESG discusses
* Action: IESG to re-review

Active WG Items
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TCP Extensions for High Performance
(draft-ietf-tcpm-1323bis)
* Milestone Target: Proposed Standard in July 2009
* Status: Recently updated, waiting for reviews from WG
* Action: WG to review the draft 

TCP Fast Open
(draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen)
* Milestone Target: Experimental in Sept. 2012
* Status: Recently updated
* Action: Needs WG review

Problem Statement and Requirements for a More Accurate ECN Feedback
(draft-kuehlewind-tcpm-accecn-reqs)
* Status: Became WG draft, earlier name draft-kuehlewind-tcpm-accecn-reqs

TCP and SCTP RTO Restart
(draft-ietf-tcpm-rtorestart)
* Status: Became WG draft, previous name draft-hurtig-tcpm-rtorestart

Updating TCP to support Variable-Rate Traffic
(draft-ietf-tcpm-newcwv)
* Status: Became WG draft, previous name draft-fairhurst-tcpm-newcwv
* Action: To be discussed at IETF-86, intended status yet undecided

Active Individual Internet-Drafts
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Additional negotiation in the TCP Timestamp Option field during the TCP handshake
(draft-scheffenegger-tcpm-timestamp-negotiation)
* Status: Not recently updated

Exposure of Time Intervals for the TCP Timestamp Option
(draft-trammell-tcpm-timestamp-interval)
* Status: Not recently updated

TCP Loss Probe (TLP): An Algorithm for Fast Recovery of Tail Losses
(draft-dukkipati-tcpm-tcp-loss-probe)
* Status: Updated prior to IETF-86

On the Validation of TCP Sequence Numbers
(draft-gont-tcpm-tcp-seq-validation)
* Status: New draft, Feb 2013