TCP Large Windows (tcplw)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     David Borman  <dab@cray.com>
 
 Transport Area Director(s) 
     Allison Mankin  <mankin@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
 
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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 RFC 1072 ``TCP extensions
for long-delay paths'' and RFC 1185 ``TCP Extension for High-Speed
Paths'' 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.

 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
     Done Review the TCP Extended Window Size proposal from the IRSG End to End
          Research Group and if acceptable, recommend it for standards status.