1. Summary
The document shepherd is Yoshifumi Nishida <nsd.ietf@gmail.com>
The responsible Area Director is Martin Duke <martin.h.duke@gmail.com>
This document provides high-level guidance to design the primary or last resort
time-based loss detection schemes for general use on the Internet, which can be
applied to not only TCP, but also other transport protocols and applications
that need their own loss detection mechanisms. The WG requests to publish this
draft as Best Current Practice document because it describes generic principles
to update existing loss detection algorithms or to develop new ones.
2. Review and Consensus
The draft was originally written for TCP and hence presented and adopted at
TCPM WG. As the discussions on the draft proceeded, the focus of the draft has
been extended to other transport and application protocols because the same
principle can be applied to them. Because of this updates, we have decided to
run WGLC for this draft on both TSVWG and TCPM WG while we still have used TCPM
WG as the venue for the discussions.
The draft has been reviewed and discussed by various participants in the WG for
long time. Most of discussion points were the choice of exact wordings in order
not to create any contradictions to other documents. In addition, we have
assigned two experts to get specific feedback from the viewpoint of non-TCP
protocols such as QUIC. The WGLC on both WG ended successfully without any
major issues. I believe there is a strong consensus in both WGs for publication.
During ART reviews, there were some discussions on the scope and the
applicability of the document. The main point of discussions was how we can
apply this document to the cases where we have some knowledge about the
network. The document has been updated several times in order to address the
points raised during the discussions, however, complete agreements have not
been archived. We decided to leave the final decision to IESG with regard to
this.
3. Intellectual Property
Each author has confirmed that their direct, personal knowledge of any
IPR related to this document has already been disclosed.
None of the authors is aware of any IPR related to this document.
4. Other Points