Subject: [Taps] Document Action: 'A Minimal Set of Transport Services for End Systems' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-taps-minset-11.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:57:56 -0700

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'A Minimal Set of Transport Services for End Systems'
  (draft-ietf-taps-minset-11.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Transport Services Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Mirja Kühlewind and Spencer Dawkins.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-taps-minset/

Technical Summary

This document recommends a minimal set of transport services offered by end systems, based on the set of existing transport protocol features surveyed in RFC 8303. It summarizes which transport features are worth exposing to an application, in contrast to those which can be automated within a transport system. Furthermore, the document gives guidance on choosing among the available mechanisms and protocols.

Working Group Summary

As this document generalizes and categorizes primitives that are already standardized in the RFC series, there was little controversy about them.

Much of the discussion was about coming up with consistent terminology and about finding the right scope, which now focuses on features of existing transport protocols that can be implemented over TCP, or UDP if certain limitations are put in place.

It was discussed whether to include security features, and finally after broadening the TAPS charter, they were put in a separate document.

Document Quality

Initially, there was not a lot of interest in this deliverable, but eventually the document was extensively reviewed and discussed by half a dozen active Working Group participants. In addition, during WGLC the body of the document was reviewed by Mikael Abrahamsson, who had not read the document before, who found it easy to understand and ready for publication.

Personnel

The document shepherd is Theresa Enghardt. The responsible Area Director is Spencer Dawkins.