[Iccrg] Procedure for obtaining ICCRG reviews

[Michael Welzl]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:51 +0100, Douglas Leith wrote:
> It might be worth trying to clarify what is meant by "safe to deploy"  
> when making one of these recommendations.  For example, one argument  
> is that inclusion of
> timeout functionality with backoff of the timeout threshold is enough  
> for "safety" since it will prevent complete congestion collapse (at  
> high loss rates operation will revert back to standard TCP  
> behaviour).  Is this enough ?  In any case, its probably a good idea  
> to distinguish "safety" from  "performance" per se.

As I said, the recommendations were derived from
draft-ietf-tsvwg-cc-alt-04.txt - so what we're now doing is
actually discuss this draft itself, which states:

"    The minimum requirements for approval for widespread deployment in
    the global Internet include the following guidelines (1) on
    assessing the impact on standard congestion control, (3) on
    investigation of the proposed mechanism in a range of environments,
    guideline (4) on protection against congestion collapse and
    guideline (8), discussing whether the mechanism allows for
    incremental deployment."

The guidelines themselves are part of that document. I suggest
that you look them up, and criticize them directly in tsvwg
if you disagree with them. I don't want to get into a discussion
of safety criteria here when this was/is already done elsewhere.

Cheers,
Michael