[Iccrg] TANA BoF

[Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-RCN0)[VZ]]

There is a BoF session at the IETF meeting this week that I think some of the ICCRG will be interested in:
 
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/08jul/agenda/tana.txt
 
And the problem statement draft is here:
 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shalunov-tana-problem-statement-01.txt
 
Specifically, one of the work items proposed is:
(1) A congestion control algorithm for less-than-best-effort
"background" transmissions, i.e., an algorithm that attempts
to scavenge otherwise idle bandwidth for its transmissions in
a way that minimizes interference with regular best-effort
traffic. Among the desired features of such an algorithm are
the ability to maintain short standing queues, the capability
to quickly yield to regular best-effort traffic that uses
standard congestion control, the ability to utilize explicit
congestion notification (ECN), active queue management (AQM),
and/or end-to-end differentiated services (DiffServ) where
available, as well as effective operation in today's typical
situations where some or all of these mechanisms are not
available. In addition to specifying a congestion control
algorithm, the work may also include specifications of how such an
algorithm is to be used in specific UDP-based protocols.
(Application of the algorithm to other transport protocols is
expected to occur in the working groups that maintain those
protocols.)
 
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