Subject: [multipathtcp] FW: New Version Notification for draft-wing-mptcp-pcp-00.txt

From: "Tirumaleswar Reddy (tireddy)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 04:25:45 +0000

Port Control Protocol (PCP, RFC6887) provides a mechanism to describe a flow to the network.  The primary driver for PCP has been creating port mappings on NAT and firewall devices.  When doing this, PCP pushes flow information from the host into the network (specifically to the network's NAT or firewall device), and receives information back from the network (from the NAT or firewall device).

PCP can also be used to signal flow characteristics to the network, and the network to signal its ability to accommodate that flow back to the host.
This draft uses PCP flow extensions to select the best paths when multiple paths are available to influence MPTCP stack functions. For example the MPTCP stack can choose the interfaces for the primary and subsequent sub-flows according to PCP Flow extension responses.

Your reviews/comments/suggestions are appreciated.

-Authors.

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Subject: New Version Notification for draft-wing-mptcp-pcp-00.txt

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Filename:	 draft-wing-mptcp-pcp
Revision:	 00
Title:		 Multipath TCP (MPTCP) Path Selection using PCP
Creation date:	 2013-10-07
Group:		 Individual Submission
Number of pages: 10
URL:             http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wing-mptcp-pcp-00.txt
Status:          http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wing-mptcp-pcp
Htmlized:        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wing-mptcp-pcp-00

Abstract:
   MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) allows a host to use multiple interfaces to
   transfer data.  Without knowledge of the characterisitcs of each
   network path, the MPTCP stack has to send data to learn those
   characteristics.  This document communicates network characteristics
   using Port Control Protocol(PCP) to allow the MPTCP stack influence
   its functions.

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