Subject: [iccrg] Fwd: [tcpm] RFC 6928 on Increasing TCP's Initial Window

From: Michael Welzl <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:13:53 +0200

I just felt like sharing this with ICCRG, if someone isn't on the TCPM list….

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> From: [email-masked]
> Subject: [tcpm] RFC 6928 on Increasing TCP's Initial Window
> Date: April 29, 2013 8:50:59 PM GMT+02:00
> To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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> 
>        RFC 6928
> 
>        Title:      Increasing TCP's Initial Window 
>        Author:     J. Chu, N. Dukkipati,
>                    Y. Cheng, M. Mathis
>        Status:     Experimental
>        Stream:     IETF
>        Date:       April 2013
>        Mailbox:    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked],
>                    [email-masked]
>        Pages:      24
>        Characters: 56523
>        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tcpm-initcwnd-08.txt
> 
>        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6928.txt
> 
> This document proposes an experiment to increase the permitted TCP
> initial window (IW) from between 2 and 4 segments, as specified in
> RFC 3390, to 10 segments with a fallback to the existing
> recommendation when performance issues are detected.  It discusses the
> motivation behind the increase, the advantages and disadvantages of
> the higher initial window, and presents results from several large-scale
> experiments showing that the higher initial window improves the
> overall performance of many web services without resulting in a
> congestion collapse.  The document closes with a discussion of usage
> and deployment for further experimental purposes recommended by the
> IETF TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (TCPM) working group.
> 
> This document is a product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
> 
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