TCP Large Windows (tcplw)




Charter



Status: Concluded April, 1998 







Chair(s):







 David Borman 







Description of Working Group:



The TCP Large Windows Working Group is chartered to produce a



specification for the use of TCP on high-delay, high-bandwidth paths.



To this end, this working group recommended ``TCP extensions for



long-delay paths'' (RFC 1072), and ``TCP Extension for High-Speed



Paths'' (RFC 1185)



be published jointly as a Proposed Standard.  Deficiencies in



the technical details of the documents were identified by the



End-to-End Research Group of the IRTF.  Rather than progress the



standard with known deficiencies, the IESG tasked the End-to-End



Research Group to fix and merge these two documents into a single



protocol specification document. This review was done on the 



e2e-interest@isi.edu mailing list.







The TCP Large Windows Working Group is being resurrected for a one



time meeting, to review and if appropriate, approve this new document.

Request for Comments:

  • RFC1323 TCP Extensions for High Performance (Proposed Standard)
  • RFC2018 TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options (Proposed Standard)