It's time for last call before the res-issues draft is submitted to the IESG for consideration as an Informational RFC. The abstract is below. Now is the time...
Falk, Aaron
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Jun 3, 1999 8:18 pm
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Aaron, I have reviewed the draft and it looks fine to me. I think it is ready to move forward... John...
New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the TCP Over Satellite Working Group of the IETF. ...
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Jun 15, 1999 8:36 pm
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FYI... You'll be seeing a new version of res-issues in the I-D archives soon (rev -09). There is no substanitive change between 08 and 09. Someone pointed out...
Mark Allman
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Jun 20, 1999 3:34 pm
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New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the TCP Over Satellite Working Group of the IETF. ...
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Jun 22, 1999 4:01 pm
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... INFOCOM 2000 LAST CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Infocom 2000 (Israel) http://www.comnet.technion.ac.il/infocom2000 (U.S.A.)...
Fred Bauer
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Jun 23, 1999 5:19 pm
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Vern- -res-issues- is done. It has gone through a two week last call with no comments on the list and no substantive changes by Mark. Please forward to the...
Falk, Aaron
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Jun 25, 1999 8:16 am
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INFOCOM 2000 ... Since the distribution of papers to TPC members has been postponed to July 6, 1999, the program committee of Infocom 2000 has decided to...
Fred Bauer
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Jun 28, 1999 7:15 pm
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The AIAA 18th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference will take place on April 10-14, 2000 in Oakland, California at the Convention Center...
Hi, Pls refer to section 3.3.4 of http://www.ietf.org/internetdrafts/draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-09.txt " Differentiating between congestion (loss of segments...
ketan bajaj
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Jul 22, 1999 8:59 am
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... There are several companies who tackle this problem. Obviously, solving a problem by a hop-by-hop special optimizations is a very good way to utilize each...
Osnat Mokryn
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Jul 22, 1999 10:03 am
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... You'll find more general topologies dealt with in the PILC working group. Specifically, there are two drafts you might be interested in. One on lossy ...
Falk, Aaron
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Jul 22, 1999 2:23 pm
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... hop. ... Another example is the SkyX from Mentat Inc., related information can be found at http://www.mentat.com/skyx/whitepaper.html ... PAN Jianping...
PAN Jianping
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Jul 22, 1999 3:40 pm
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I think it should be interesting to investigate efforts on a protocol that is enable to cope with TCP limitations. up to now this type of protocol has been...
Dean Martin
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Jul 22, 1999 6:57 pm
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Dean- Well, it depends by what you mean 'TCP limitations.' If by that you mean something like stop-and-wait behavior when more than one packet is lost in a ...
Falk, Aaron
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Jul 22, 1999 10:20 pm
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thanks for the feedback, i agree that techniques such as spoofing (splitting the tcp connection) from companies mentioned like flash-networks & mentat, and...
ketan bajaj
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Jul 23, 1999 9:13 am
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Hi The terms spoofing has different meaning and generally denotes systems which send false acknowledgements to the end node to trick it into sending data...
Dean Martin
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Jul 23, 1999 11:30 am
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... In the absense of explicit information, the sender *must* assume that a lost packet is an indication of congestion. You can't change this aspect of TCP,...
Jamshid Mahdavi
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Jul 23, 1999 4:27 pm
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This is an issue that would be helped by good ECN and new sender code, if the sender then could assume lack of ECN implies error loss -- thus keep sending with...
Alex Cannara
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Jul 23, 1999 5:33 pm
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Note that spoofing has been around for many years for LAN protocols, such as LLC, where folks like Cisco create effectively routed links for unroutable...
Alex Cannara
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Jul 23, 1999 5:53 pm
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Oh, don't I wish. Unfortunately, packets carrying CE bit set are just as likely to be lost due to congestion as any other packet, so that the lack of ECN means...
Spencer Dawkins
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Jul 23, 1999 7:43 pm
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... Unfortunately, you can't make this assumption ("lack of ECN implies error loss"). I believe that Phil Karn (I hope I'm attributing this correctly) has ...
Jamshid Mahdavi
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Jul 23, 1999 7:45 pm
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... I believe with CDMA this situation can occur. Greater number of users can lead to a higher error rate, which is an indication of congestion (of course, ...
Nitin Vaidya
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Jul 23, 1999 8:01 pm
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Ketan, ... As I understand it, your original question was "Why bother trying to make TCP distinguish between corruption loss and congestion loss, why not make...
Robert C. Durst
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Jul 23, 1999 11:58 pm
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Jamshid, I agree, the use of some mechanism that makes a clear distinction between loss and congestion available to the sender is what would make things much...
Alex Cannara
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Jul 24, 1999 5:13 am
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Spencer, yes I wasn't suggesting ECN as "the defined standard", and wasn't even aware of all the problems with it you mention. I'm just hoping for something...
Alex Cannara
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Jul 24, 1999 5:18 am
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... We can always engineer the optimum solution for a particular problem. However, TCP is a compromise that works in nearly all environments and works very...