RE: [Tsvwg] pre-BOF discussion

[john.loughney at nokia.com]

Hi Michael,

> I would like to start a discussion to gauge interest in 
> possibly having a BOF (note that nothing has been decided yet - 
> but starting with a mailing list and a web site seems to be a 
> good idea) at the London IETF meeting.
> 
> The topic is "ABR to the Internet" - in fact, it's "ABR Explicit Rate
> Feedback related mechanisms for the Internet". To quote from 
> the web site:
> 
> The goal: A generic approach to ... 
> - identify relevant information 
> - propose a new protocol and/or changes to existing protocols 
> - propose ways to use specific information (endpoint behaviour)
>   to achieve a certain QoS gain 
> Don't think of it as strictly ABR-like (requiring per flow state).
> Think of it as ECN with a finer granularity. 

This sounds like it could be part of the Next Steps in Signaling
work, that has been proposed as a working group.  I haven't
heard of any progress in that area.  Perhaps Allison M. is
putting something together for that.

br,
John