Hello Transport Enthusiasts, (bcc: TCPM, QUIC, and ICCRG) Zahed and I would like to invite you to the TSVAREA meeting at IETF 114 (Monday 13:30 local time), where we will be having a more action-oriented discussion than usual.
*TL;DR* the way we do congestion control standards is written down in RFC 5033 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5033.html>, and is no longer aligned with how congestion control innovation happens or the family of transport protocols that use standard congestion control. The IETF is largely irrelevant to new congestion control deployments. So we'll discuss a proposal to fix it. This meeting will have some BoF-like elements but it is not formally a BoF. In consultation with several stakeholders, we've devised a strategy to address this: * Colin Perkins, IRTF chair, has agreed to add at least one chair to ICCRG (I'm sure Colin would welcome volunteer candidates!). While retaining its hosting presentations role, there will be renewed emphasis on serving as a forum to produce experimental RFCs, with a charter update if necessary. * The Transport ADs are going to consider chartering a new IETF working group to update the administrative framework for congestion control standardization, and potentially adopt any proposals that are sufficiently mature for the standards track. We've formulated a proposed charter. Please consider it a starting point for discussion. https://github.com/martinduke/congestion-control-charter/ I ask you to review this document before attending. It answers many of the questions you may already have. In Philadelphia, we hope to answer as many of the following questions as possible, in order: * Is there rough consensus on the problem to solve? * Are the deliverables right? * Are there people willing to take responsibility for those deliverables? (The meeting is over if the answer is "no") * Does the proposed charter need changes? * Is anyone especially excited to chair this WG? Please come to Philadelphia having thought about these questions and prepared to answer them. You are also welcome to share thoughts on the tsv-area list; all other recipients have been Bcced: so that the rest of the thread will go to only that list. Subscribe if you want to track the discussion. Although charter wordsmithing is somewhat premature, you are also welcome to file issues and PRs on the github linked above. See you there, Martin and Zahed Your friendly Transport ADs
