Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg)
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Charter
Last Modified: 2009-09-22

Current Status: Active Working Group

Chair(s):
    James Polk  <[email protected]>
    Gorry Fairhurst  <[email protected]>

Transport Area Director(s):
    Magnus Westerlund  <[email protected]>
    Lars Eggert  <[email protected]>

Transport Area Advisor:
    Lars Eggert  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

The Transport Area receives occasional proposals for the development
and publication of RFCs dealing with transport topics that are not in
scope of an existing working group or do not justify the formation of
a new working group. TSVWG will serve as the forum for developing
such work items in the IETF.

The TSVWG mailing list is an open discussion forum for such work
items, when they arise. The working group meets if there are active
proposals that require discussion. The working group milestones are
updated as needed to reflect the current work items and their
associated milestones.

The currently active TSVWG work items mostly fall under the following
topics:

(A) Maintenance of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP),
which involves bug fixes to the SCTP specifications and their
progression along the standards track. This work item also includes a
small number of modular extensions to SCTP. Currently, these include
SCTP-ADDIP, SCTP-AUTH and SCTP-PADDING, as well as socket API and
threat analysis documents. In order to maintain stable
specifications, additional work on SCTP in TSVWG requires Area
Director approval.

(B) Maintenance of the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), which
involves bug fixes to the RSVP specifications and their progression
along the standards track. This work item may also include a small
number of extensions to RSVP or advisory documents to address
specific application scenarios. In order to maintain stable
specifications, additional work on RSVP in TSVWG requires Area
Director approval.

(C) Maintenance of IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) mechanisms,
which involves mostly advisory documents on the use of DiffServ in
specific application scenarios. Other work items related to DiffServ
require Area Director approval.

(D) Selected other work items, which are mostly in TSVWG for historic
reasons. These include an extended statistics MIB for TCP and the
quick-start mechanism for TCP and IP. Additional work that does not
fall under one of the above topics in TSVWG must satisfy four
conditions: (1) WG consensus on the suitability and projected quality
of the proposed work item. (2) A core group of WG participants with
sufficient energy and expertise to advance the work item according to
the proposed schedule. (3) Commitment from the WG as a whole to
provide sufficient and timely review of the proposed work item. (4)
Agreement by the ADs, who, depending on the scope of the proposed
work item, may decide that an IESG review is needed first.

Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Updates to RFC 793 to resolve conflict between diffserv and TCP
               interpretation of IP Precedence submitted for publication as
               Proposed Standard

  Done         Addition to RFC 2018 to use TCP SACK for detecting unnecessary
               retransmissions submitted for publication as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit I-D on TCP Congestion Window Validation to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit I-D on Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard.

  Done         submit revised ID for ECN to IESG for consideration as a
               proposed standard

  Done         submit ID on UDP-lite to IESG for consideration as a proposed
               standard

  Done         TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) unicast congestion control
               algorithm submitted to IESG for consideration as a proposed
               standard

  Done         Submit ID for SCTP unreliable transport mode to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit 'Alternate Semantics for the ECN Field' to IESG for
               consideration as BCP

  Done         Submit 'Aggregation of RSVP Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE
               Tunnels' to IESG for consideration as PS

  Done         Submit Submit 'QoS Signaling in a Nested Virtual Private
               Network' to IESG for consideration as Informational

  Done         Submit 'Generic Aggregate RSVP Reservations' to IESG for
               consideration as PS

  Done         Submit 'Quick-Start for TCP and IP' to IESG for consideration
               as Experimental

  Done         Submit 'TCP Extended Statistics MIB' to IESG for consideration
               as PS

  Done         Submit 'Authenticated Chunks for Stream Control Transmission
               Protocol' to IESG as consideration as PS

  Done         Submit 'Padding Chunk and Parameter for SCTP' to IESG for
               consideration as PS

  Done         Submit 'SCTP Dynamic Address Reconfiguration' to IESG for
               consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit revision of 'Stream Control Transmission Protocol' to
               IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit 'Security Attacks Found Against SCTP and Current
               Countermeasures' to IESG for consideration as Informational

  Done         Submit 'Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms' to IESG
               for consideration as Best Current Practice

  Done         Submit 'Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes' to IESG for
               consideration as Informational

  Done         Submit 'Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS' to IESG for
               consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit 'User-Defined Errors for RSVP' to IESG for consideration
               as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit 'RSVP Extensions for Emergency Services' to IESG for
               consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit 'RSVP Proxy Approaches' to IESG for consideration as
               Informational

  Done         Submit 'RSVP Extensions for Path-Triggered RSVP Receiver Proxy'
               to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Submit 'UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers' to IESG
               for consideration as Best Current Practice

  Done         Submit 'DSCPs for Capacity-Admitted Traffic' to IESG for
               consideration as Proposed Standard

  Done         Request publication of 'Support for RSVP in Layer 3 VPNs' as
               Proposed Standard RFC

  Nov 2009       Submit 'Port Randomization for Transport Protocols' to the IESG
               for consideration as a Best Current Practice

  Nov 2009       Request Publication of 'SCTP Stream Reconfiguration' as
               Proposed Standard

  Nov 2009       Submit 'Applicability of Keying Methods for RSVP Security' to
               IESG for consideration as Informational

  Dec 2009       Submit 'Sockets API Extensions for SCTP' to IESG for
               consideration as Informational

  Dec 2009       Request publication of 'IANA Procedures for the Transport
               Protocol Port Number Space' as BCP RFC

  Dec 2009       Request publication of 'Datagram Transport Layer Security for
               Stream Control Transmission' as Proposed Standard

  Jan 2010       Request publication of 'Layered Encapsulation of Congestion
               Notification' as Proposed Standard

  Feb 2010       Request publication of 'Byte and Packet Congestion
               Notification' as Informational RFC


Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Jun 2001 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpsocket-21.txt>
               Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol
               (SCTP)

Oct 2006 Nov 2009   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-emergency-rsvp-14.txt>
               Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Extensions for Admission
               Priority

Dec 2006 Dec 2009   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-admitted-realtime-dscp-06.txt>
               DSCP for Capacity-Admitted Traffic

Feb 2007 Oct 2009   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-proxy-proto-10.txt>
               RSVP Extensions for Path-Triggered RSVP Receiver Proxy

Feb 2007 Oct 2009   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-proxy-approaches-08.txt>
               RSVP Proxy Approaches

Dec 2007 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-randomization-06.txt>
               Transport Protocol Port Randomization Recommendations

Jul 2008 Nov 2009   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-l3vpn-05.txt>
               Support for RSVP in Layer 3 VPNs

Jul 2008 Jan 2010   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-04.txt>
               Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the
               Management of the Transport Protocol Port Number and Service
               Name Registry

Aug 2008 Oct 2009   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-byte-pkt-congest-01.txt>
               Byte and Packet Congestion Notification

Oct 2008 Mar 2010   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-tunnel-08.txt>
               Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification

Oct 2008 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-dtls-for-sctp-04.txt>
               Datagram Transport Layer Security for Stream Control
               Transmission Protocol

Jul 2009 Feb 2010   <draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-strrst-04.txt>
               Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream
               Reconfiguration

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC2861 E    Jun 2000    TCP Congestion Window Validation

RFC2883 PS   Aug 2000    An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK)
                      Option for TCP

RFC2988 PS   Nov 2000    Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer

RFC3042 PS   Jan 2001    Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit

RFC3168 PS   Sep 2001    The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
                      to IP

RFC3309 PS   Oct 2002    Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum
                      Change

RFC3390 PS   Nov 2002    Increasing TCP's Initial Window

RFC3436 PS   Dec 2002    Transport Layer Security over Stream Control
                      Transmission Protocol

RFC3448 PS   Jan 2003    TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC):Protocol Specification

RFC3517 PS   Apr 2003    A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based
                      Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP

RFC3522 E    May 2003    The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP

RFC3540 E    Nov 2003    Robust ECN Signaling with Nonces

RFC3649 E    Dec 2003    HighSpeed TCP for Large Congestion Windows

RFC3708 E    Mar 2004    Using TCP DSACKs and SCTP Duplicate TSNs to Detect
                      Spurious Retransmissions

RFC3782Standard  Apr 2004    The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery
                      Algorithm

RFC3742 E    May 2004    Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows

RFC3758Standard  May 2004    SCTP Partial Reliability Extension

RFC3828Standard  Jul 2004    The UDP-Lite Protocol

RFC4015Standard  Feb 2005    The Eifel Response Algorithm for TCP

RFC4460 I    Apr 2006    Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
                      Specification Errata and Issues

RFC4495 PS   May 2006    A Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Extension for the
                      Reduction of Bandwidth of a Reservation Flow

RFC4542 I    May 2006    Implementing an Emergency Telecommunications Service
                      (ETS) for Real Time Services in the Internet Protocol
                      Suite

RFC4594 I    Aug 2006    Configuration Guidelines for DiffServ Service Classes

RFC4774BCP  Nov 2006    Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit
                      Congestion Notification (ECN) Field

RFC4782 E    Jan 2007    Quick-Start for TCP and IP

RFC4804 PS   Feb 2007    Aggregation of Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)
                      Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE Tunnels

RFC4820 PS   Mar 2007    Padding Chunk and Parameter for the Stream Control
                      Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

RFC4860 PS   May 2007    Generic Aggregate Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)
                      Reservations

RFC4898 PS   May 2007    TCP Extended Statistics MIB

RFC4923 I    Aug 2007    Quality of Service (QoS) Signaling in a Nested Virtual
                      Private Network

RFC5033BCP  Aug 2007    Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms

RFC4895 PS   Aug 2007    Authenticated Chunks for Stream Control Transmission
                      Protocol (SCTP)

RFC5061 PS   Sep 2007    Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic
                      Address Reconfiguration

RFC4960 PS   Sep 2007    Stream Control Transmission Protocol

RFC5062 I    Sep 2007    Security Attacks Found Against SCTP and Current
                      Countermeasures

RFC5129 PS   Jan 2008    Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS

RFC5097 PS   Jan 2008    MIB for the UDP-Lite protocol

RFC5127 I    Feb 2008    Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes

RFC5284 PS   Aug 2008    User-Defined Errors for RSVP

RFC5405BCP  Nov 2008    Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers