Technical Summary
TCP and SCTP provide notification of duplicate segment receipt through
DSACK and Duplicate TSN notification, respectively. This document shows
conservative methods of using this information to identify unnecessary
retransmissions for various applications. This document does not, however
outline what a TCP or SCTP sender should do after a spurious
retransmission is detected. It is hoped that future work building on the
detection of spurious transmissions will make TCP and SCTP more robust
to reordererd packets.
Working Group Summary
The TSVWG supports this protocol going forward, and is investigating
several proposals that rely on the detection of spurious retransmissions
which might benefit from this work.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Allison Mankin and Jon Peterson.