Subject: [Tsvwg] Re: new internet draft

From: Luigi Rizzo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:35:44 +0200 (CEST)

[reply Cc to the tsvwg list as requested...]

> Sally Floyd, Hari Balakrishnan and I have put together an
> Internet-Draft that outlines a small set of changes to TCP that
> makes loss recovery more robust in the face of small window sizes
> (or a ton of ACK loss).  The I-D announcement is attached.  We
> request that the discussion of this document take place on the
> transport area WG mailing list ([email-masked]).
> 
> We'd appreciate hearing any comments you might have, as well as any
> references to related work that we may have unintentionally
> overlooked.

Sec.3, "Reduction of the Retransmission Threshold" is very close
to something i implemented back in 1995-1996 in FreeBSD together
with SACK, see

	http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sack.html
	http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/selack.ps

but i suppose there have been many others doing the same
thing.

	cheers
	luigi
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