ICCRG & TSVAREA folks,
Just to announce this invite if you're not on the [email protected] list.
Apologies if you are.
Bob
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:00:39 +0100
To: re-ECN unIETF list <[email protected]>
From: Bob Briscoe <[email protected]>
Subject: Congestion Transparency (re-ECN) ad hoc BoF @Stockholm IETF
Folks,
I'd like to get together people who might be interested in helping
organise a BoF on Congestion Transparency (re-ECN) for a future IETF.
15:00 - 16:30 CET Thu 30 Jul Rm 501 @ Stockholm IETF conference venue
Pls give ideas for agenda items (I will too).
This isn't intended to be a general show-and-tell - it's mainly for
people interested in helping/reviewing/discussing plans for a BoF to
form an IETF working group. This should complement the design team
work going on in ICCRG on a new capacity sharing architecture for
the Internet.
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/CapacitySharingArch>
For those who won't be able to attend (and those who will), this
list would also be a fine place to start discussions.
The main idea is to get some protocol specification activity going
around re-ECN. Probably initially experimental track. So we can make
some practical progress. But there is also room for writing docs
about uses of congestion transparency and so on.
My colleague Alan Smith has (finally) got the green light from our
employers to open source the Linux kernel code he has written. And
there are two implementations in ns2 that I know of, with another
two being planned. So we ought to be making sure the spec becomes
truly common property and starts to evolve to commonly agreed requirements.
That means we have to be open to any changes, including using
better/different fields in protocol headers, choosing a different
name, and so on. But the most important thing is to make some
practical progress.
Bob
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Bob Briscoe, Networks Research Centre, BT Research
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Bob Briscoe, Networks Research Centre, BT Research
