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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Craig Partridge/BBN
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- MINUTES
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- The TCP Large Windows WG met for half a day to discuss the two
- proposals (RFCs 1072 and 1106) for improving TCP for large
- delay-bandwidth paths. During the meeting two key issues were
- raised.
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- The group determined that a key problem was how large to permit
- the window to be. A larger window makes it easier to consume
- the 32-bit sequence quickly. An example may help here. If one
- permits a window of 2^30 bytes, then in each round-trip time,
- one quarter of the sequence space can be consumed, and in four
- RTTs, the sequence space will recycle. However, a TCP cannot
- cycle the sequence space until it is sure the TTL of prior
- segments has expired (the forbidden zone problem). So, we were
- faced with choosing window sizes, that at anticipated speeds,
- didn't cause the sequence space to roll over in less than the
- anticipated TTL. In the end, the group was uncomfortable with
- this problem and has asked Van Jacobson and Bob Braden (both of
- whom have looked at this issue in more detail) to attend the
- next meeting.
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- Another issue was whether we preferred to use options in every
- segment to expand the window, or preferred to find a way that
- didn't cause implementations to do expensive option handling.
- The consensus was to avoid option handling (which meant we
- preferred the rfc 1072 approach). Some discussion was given to
- generating a larger TCP header, but this conversation foundered
- when we checked the TCP header and found it lacked a version
- number.
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- The group did not have time to consider another interesting
- proposal (passed on from the IETF Hosts group) to allow text
- error messages in RST segments.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Borman, Dave McCloghrie, Keith
- Elz, Robert McKenney, Paul
- Fox, Richard Miller, Dave
- Galvin, James M. Solensky, Frank
- Hedrick, Charles St.Johns, Mike
- Karels, Mike Yasaki, Brian
- Love, Paul
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