Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (dccp)

In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:

       Additional DCCP Web Page

Last Modified: 2008-05-07

Additional information is available at tools.ietf.org/wg/dccp

Chair(s):

  • Thomas Phelan <tphelan@sonusnet.com>

  • Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>

    Transport Area Director(s):

  • Magnus Westerlund <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com>
  • Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>

    Transport Area Advisor:

  • Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>

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    Description of Working Group:

    The Datagram Control Protocol working group is chartered to develop and
    standardize the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). DCCP is a
    minimal general purpose transport-layer protocol providing only two
    core functions:

    - the establishment, maintenance and teardown of an unreliable packet
      flow.

    - congestion control of that packet flow.

    Within the constraints of providing these core functions, DCCP aims to
    be a general purpose protocol, minimizing the overhead of packet
    header
    size or end-node processing as much as possible. Therefore, DCCP is as
    simple as possible, and as far as reasonably possible, it should avoid
    providing higher-level transport functionality. DCCP will provide a
    congestion-controlled, unreliable packet stream, without TCP's
    reliability or in-order delivery semantics. Additional unicast,
    flow-based application functionality can be layered over DCCP.


    SCOPE

    Drafts for DCCP, and several associated congestion control IDs, already
    exist. The first task before the working group will be an abbreviated
    functional requirement validation of those drafts. There are two
    possible outcomes:

    1) The current DCCP draft is declared suitable for further work, with
      some areas listed for possible extension.

    2) The current DCCP draft is declared unsuitable for further work, and
      more formal functional requirement exploration begins.

    Prior to the final development of the protocol, the working group will
    investigate areas of functionality that should be integrated into DCCP
    because they are difficult or impossible to layer above it. These areas
    include security and multi-homing/mobility, at a minimum. The protocol
    will be for both IPv4 and IPv6. It will not encompass multicast. It
    is strictly a unicast transport.

    For security, the working group will endeavor to ensure that DCCP
    incorporates good non-cryptographic mechanisms that make it resistant
    to denial-of-service attacks on DCCP connections and DCCP servers. A
    related topic that will be explored is whether DCCP can be a candidate
    to replace UDP in the transport of security management protocols such
    as IKE and JFK.

    The working group will also investigate DCCP's relationship with RTP
    (the Real-time Transport Protocol).

    Once the DCCP specification has stabilized, the WG will produce a
    document providing guidance to potential users of DCCP. The precise
    form of this document will be determined by WG discussion, but it
    might
    include example APIs, an applicability statement, or other forms of
    guidance about appropriate usage of DCCP.

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Publish summary of required protocol functions/requirements
    Done  Decision to build on proposed DCCP protocol, alternate protocol, or quit and go home
    Done  Detailed review of spec and CCIDs
    Done  Public design review at IETF meeting
    Done  Working group last call for spec and CCIDs
    Done  Submit DCCP spec for IESG/IETF review to be Proposed Standard
    Done  Submit DCCP CCIDs for IESG/IETF review to be Proposed Standard
    Done  Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-problem-xx as Informational
    Done  Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-voip as Experimental
    Done  Complete WGLC 'RTP over DCCP' as PS
    Done  Complete WGLC 'DTLS over DCCP' as PS
    Done  Complete WGLC for draft-ietf-dccp-rfc3448bis as PS
    Apr 2008  Complete WGLC for draft-ietf-dccp-serv-codes as PS
    Jul 2008  Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-ccid4 as Experimental
    Sep 2008  Complete WGLC draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-faster-restart as Experimental
    Sep 2008  Complete WGLC for draft-ietf-dccp-simul-open as PS

    Internet-Drafts:

    Faster Restart for TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) (49535 bytes)
    RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (39080 bytes)
    TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification (148766 bytes)
    Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) over the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (25416 bytes)
    The DCCP Service Code (57526 bytes)
    Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion ID 4: TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Small Packets (TFRC-SP) (49172 bytes)
    DCCP Simultaneous-Open Technique to Facilitate NAT/Middlebox Traversal (43579 bytes)

    Request For Comments:

    Problem Statement for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (RFC 4336) (53585 bytes)
    Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (RFC 4340) (318830 bytes)
    Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 2: TCP-like Congestion Control (RFC 4341) (47868 bytes)
    Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) (RFC 4342) (83054 bytes)
    TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): the Small-Packet (SP) Variant (RFC 4828) (116808 bytes)
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