Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg) ------------------------------------ Charter Last Modified: 2006-08-02 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): James Polk Magnus Westerlund Lars Eggert Transport Area Director(s): Magnus Westerlund Lars Eggert Transport Area Advisor: Lars Eggert Mailing Lists: General Discussion:tsvwg@ietf.org To Subscribe: tsvwg-request@ietf.org In Body: subscribe email_address Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tsvwg/index.html Description of Working Group: The Transport Area receives occasional proposals for the development and publication of RFCs dealing with transport topics that are not in scope of an existing working group or do not justify the formation of a new working group. TSVWG will serve as the forum for developing such work items in the IETF. The TSVWG mailing list is an open discussion forum for such work items, when they arise. The working group meets if there are active proposals that require discussion. The working group milestones are updated as needed to reflect the current work items and their associated milestones. The currently active TSVWG work items mostly fall under the following topics: (A) Maintenance of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), which involves bug fixes to the SCTP specifications and their progression along the standards track. This work item also includes a small number of modular extensions to SCTP. Currently, these include SCTP-ADDIP, SCTP-AUTH and SCTP-PADDING, as well as socket API and threat analysis documents. In order to maintain stable specifications, additional work on SCTP in TSVWG requires Area Director approval. (B) Maintenance of the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), which involves bug fixes to the RSVP specifications and their progression along the standards track. This work item may also include a small number of extensions to RSVP or advisory documents to address specific application scenarios. In order to maintain stable specifications, additional work on RSVP in TSVWG requires Area Director approval. (C) Maintenance of IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) mechanisms, which involves mostly advisory documents on the use of DiffServ in specific application scenarios. Other work items related to DiffServ require Area Director approval. (D) Selected other work items, which are mostly in TSVWG for historic reasons. These include an extended statistics MIB for TCP and the quick-start mechanism for TCP and IP. Additional work that does not fall under one of the above topics in TSVWG 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 ADs, who, depending on the scope of the proposed work item, may decide that an IESG review is needed first. Goals and Milestones: Done Updates to RFC 793 to resolve conflict between diffserv and TCP interpretation of IP Precedence submitted for publication as Proposed Standard Done Addition to RFC 2018 to use TCP SACK for detecting unnecessary retransmissions submitted for publication as Proposed Standard Done Submit I-D on TCP Congestion Window Validation to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard Done Submit I-D on Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Done submit revised ID for ECN to IESG for consideration as a proposed standard Done submit ID on UDP-lite to IESG for consideration as a proposed standard Done TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) unicast congestion control algorithm submitted to IESG for consideration as a proposed standard Done Submit ID for SCTP unreliable transport mode to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard Done Submit 'Alternate Semantics for the ECN Field' to IESG for consideration as BCP Done Submit 'Aggregation of RSVP Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE Tunnels' to IESG for consideration as PS Done Submit Submit 'QoS Signaling in a Nested Virtual Private Network' to IESG for consideration as Informational Done Submit 'Generic Aggregate RSVP Reservations' to IESG for consideration as PS Jul 2006 Submit 'TCP Extended Statistics MIB' to IESG for consideration as PS Done Submit 'Quick-Start for TCP and IP' to IESG for consideration as Experimental Aug 2006 Submit 'SCTP Dynamic Address Reconfiguration' to IESG for consideration as PS Aug 2006 Submit 'Authenticated Chunks for Stream Control Transmission Protocol' to IESG as consideration as PS Oct 2006 Submit 'Security Threats to SCTP' to IESG for consideration as Informational Nov 2006 Submit 'Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol' to IESG for consideration as Informational Dec 2006 Submit 'Padding Chunk and Parameter for SCTP' to IESG for consideration as PS Jan 2007 Submit revision of 'Stream Control Transmission Protocol' to IESG for consideration as PS Mar 2007 Submit 'Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes' for consideration as Informational Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- May 2001 Jun 2006 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration Jun 2001 Jun 2006 Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Feb 2002 Oct 2006 TCP Extended Statistics MIB Jun 2005 Oct 2006 Quick-Start for TCP and IP Jun 2005 Sep 2006 Authenticated Chunks for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Jul 2005 Sep 2006 Aggregation of RSVP Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE Tunnels Jan 2006 Sep 2006 Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field Jan 2006 Oct 2006 Security Attacks Found Against SCTP and Current Countermeasures Feb 2006 Jun 2006 Stream Control Transmission Protocol Feb 2006 Sep 2006 QoS Signaling in a Nested Virtual Private Network Mar 2006 Sep 2006 Generic Aggregate RSVP Reservations Jun 2006 Oct 2006 Padding Chunk and Parameter for SCTP Jun 2006 Oct 2006 Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes Oct 2006 Oct 2006 RSVP Extensions for Emergency Services Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2861 E Jun 2000 TCP Congestion Window Validation RFC2883 PS Aug 2000 An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP RFC2988 PS Nov 2000 Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer RFC3042 PS Jan 2001 Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit RFC3168 PS Sep 2001 The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP RFC3309 PS Oct 2002 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum Change RFC3390 PS Nov 2002 Increasing TCP's Initial Window RFC3436 PS Dec 2002 Transport Layer Security over Stream Control Transmission Protocol RFC3448 PS Jan 2003 TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC):Protocol Specification RFC3517 PS Apr 2003 A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP RFC3522 E May 2003 The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP RFC3540 E Nov 2003 Robust ECN Signaling with Nonces RFC3649 E Dec 2003 HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows RFC3708 E Mar 2004 Using TCP DSACKs and SCTP Duplicate TSNs to Detect Spurious Retransmissions RFC3782Standard Apr 2004 The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm RFC3742 E May 2004 Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows RFC3758Standard May 2004 SCTP Partial Reliability Extension RFC3828Standard Jul 2004 The UDP-Lite Protocol RFC4015Standard Feb 2005 The Eifel Response Algorithm for TCP RFC4460 I Apr 2006 Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Specification Errata and Issues RFC4495 PS May 2006 A Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Extension for the Reduction of Bandwidth of a Reservation Flow RFC4542 I May 2006 Implementing an Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS) for Real Time Services in the Internet Protocol Suite RFC4594 I Aug 2006 Configuration Guidelines for DiffServ Service Classes