Hi Michael,
> I would like to start a discussion to gauge interest in
> possibly having a BOF (note that nothing has been decided yet -
> but starting with a mailing list and a web site seems to be a
> good idea) at the London IETF meeting.
>
> The topic is "ABR to the Internet" - in fact, it's "ABR Explicit Rate
> Feedback related mechanisms for the Internet". To quote from
> the web site:
>
> The goal: A generic approach to ...
> - identify relevant information
> - propose a new protocol and/or changes to existing protocols
> - propose ways to use specific information (endpoint behaviour)
> to achieve a certain QoS gain
> Don't think of it as strictly ABR-like (requiring per flow state).
> Think of it as ECN with a finer granularity.
This sounds like it could be part of the Next Steps in Signaling
work, that has been proposed as a working group. I haven't
heard of any progress in that area. Perhaps Allison M. is
putting something together for that.
br,
John
