Subject: [tcpm] 793bis wording on congestion control

From: Wesley Eddy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 17:08:37 -0500

During the IETF 109 meeting, we discussed what the 793bis document 
should say regarding the congestion control algorithm support expected 
for TCP implementations.

For reference, the current draft says:

    3.7.2.  TCP Congestion Control

        RFC 1122 required implementation of Van Jacobson's congestion
    control
        algorithm combining slow start with congestion avoidance. RFC 2581
        provided IETF Standards Track description of this, along with fast
        retransmit and fast recovery.  RFC 5681 is the current
    description of
        these algorithms and is the current standard for TCP congestion
        control.

        A TCP endpoint MUST implement RFC 5681 (MUST-19).

        Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) was defined in RFC 3168
    and is
        an IETF Standards Track enhancement that has many benefits [47].

        A TCP endpoint SHOULD implement ECN as described in RFC 3168 (SHLD-
        8).

I think the sense of what people might agree that it should say is 
something like this (with changes marked in red):

    3.7.2.  TCP Congestion Control

        RFC 2914 explains the importance of congestion control for the
    Internet.

        RFC 1122 required implementation of Van Jacobson's congestion
    control
        algorithm combining slow start with congestion avoidance. RFC 2581
        provided IETF Standards Track description of this, along with fast
        retransmit and fast recovery.  RFC 5681 is the current
    description of
        these algorithms and is the current standard for TCP congestion
        control.

    A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least some basic congestion control
    algorithm suitable to avoid creating congestion collapse conditions
    (MUST-19). RFC 5681 is an exemplary algorithm on the IETF Standards
    Track that is broadly applicable.  Multiple other suitable
    algorithms exist and have been widely used.  CUBIC [RFC8312] and BBR
    are prominent examples that have been discussed at length in the
    IETF but not yet standardized.  Many TCP implementations support a
    set of alternative algorithms that can be configured for use on the
    endpoint.

        Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) was defined in RFC 3168
    and is
        an IETF Standards Track enhancement that has many benefits [47].

        A TCP endpoint SHOULD implement ECN as described in RFC 3168 (SHLD-
        8).

This is an attempt at synthesizing from comments during the meeting 
(both audio and jabber chat) from Jana Iyengar, Jonathan Morton, Martin 
Duke, Praveen Balasubramanian, Gorry Fairhurst, Bob Briscoe, Matt 
Mathis, and Michael Scharf.  I think there is broad agreement that we 
wanted to move away from requiring 5681, but did want to cite it as a 
perfectly fine example or default, but also wanted to explicitly permit 
other reasonable choices at an implementer's discretion.

Please discuss, especially if you disagree or have better ways to phrase 
this.

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From: Praveen Balasubramanian <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:44:45 +0000

This looks good to me except that the references to CUBIC and BBR can become dated over time and might also get standardized. So I’d omit this sentence “CUBIC [RFC8312] and BBR are prominent examples that have been discussed at length in the IETF but not yet standardized.”

From: tcpm <[email-masked]> On Behalf Of Wesley Eddy
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:09 PM
To: tcpm IETF list <[email-masked]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [tcpm] 793bis wording on congestion control

During the IETF 109 meeting, we discussed what the 793bis document should say regarding the congestion control algorithm support expected for TCP implementations.

   RFC 1122 required implementation of Van Jacobson's congestion control
   algorithm combining slow start with congestion avoidance.  RFC 2581
   provided IETF Standards Track description of this, along with fast
   retransmit and fast recovery.  RFC 5681 is the current description of
   these algorithms and is the current standard for TCP congestion
   control.

   Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) was defined in RFC 3168 and is
   an IETF Standards Track enhancement that has many benefits [47].

I think the sense of what people might agree that it should say is something like this (with changes marked in red):

   RFC 2914 explains the importance of congestion control for the Internet.

   RFC 1122 required implementation of Van Jacobson's congestion control
   algorithm combining slow start with congestion avoidance.  RFC 2581
   provided IETF Standards Track description of this, along with fast
   retransmit and fast recovery.  RFC 5681 is the current description of
   these algorithms and is the current standard for TCP congestion
   control.

   A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least some basic congestion control algorithm suitable to avoid creating congestion collapse conditions (MUST-19). RFC 5681 is an exemplary algorithm on the IETF Standards Track that is broadly applicable.  Multiple other suitable algorithms exist and have been widely used.  CUBIC [RFC8312] and BBR are prominent examples that have been discussed at length in the IETF but not yet standardized.  Many TCP implementations support a set of alternative algorithms that can be configured for use on the endpoint.

   Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) was defined in RFC 3168 and is
   an IETF Standards Track enhancement that has many benefits [47].

This is an attempt at synthesizing from comments during the meeting (both audio and jabber chat) from Jana Iyengar, Jonathan Morton, Martin Duke, Praveen Balasubramanian, Gorry Fairhurst, Bob Briscoe, Matt Mathis, and Michael Scharf.  I think there is broad agreement that we wanted to move away from requiring 5681, but did want to cite it as a perfectly fine example or default, but also wanted to explicitly permit other reasonable choices at an implementer's discretion.

Please discuss, especially if you disagree or have better ways to phrase this.

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From: Yuchung Cheng <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:13:56 -0800

+1 to proposed change.

It might be odd to say this as a co-author of BBR. I think mentioning
BBR or Cubic as prominent examples may be a bit biased. There are many
prominent great congestion control (for different scope/area/type of
networks) that are not possible to list them all. I would not mind if
we remove 'CUBIC [RFC8312] and BBR are prominent examples that have
been discussed at length in the IETF but not yet standardized.  '

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:52:21 -0800

Hi, all,

I don’t agree with this change.

The last I recall, the basic rule was “CC as per RFC 5681”, which allows for other algorithms as long as they’re no more aggressive (sec 3).

I see no reason to drop that requirement, which is what the text below does. The text below implies that “well, any CC will play nice”, but we know that’s not the case.

Joe

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From: Lars Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:23:08 +0200

Hi,

> This looks good to me except that the references to CUBIC and BBR can become dated over time and might also get standardized. So I’d omit this sentence “CUBIC [RFC8312] and BBR are prominent exampl…

also, we're about to ask for adoption of 8312bis on the Standards Track (https://github.com/NTAP/rfc8312bis) as soon as we have the individual -01 ready, so the text would be incorrect at least for CUBIC.

Lars

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From: Vidhi Goel <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:33:45 -0800

+1 to removing CUBIC or BBR as references.

> On Dec 9, 2020, at 11:23 PM, Lars Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>

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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:52:38 -0800 (PST)

> been discussed at length in the IETF but not yet standardized.  '

Yes please., or perhaps only reference what IS in an RFC, CUBIC.

> > This looks good to me except that the references to CUBIC and BBR can become dated over time and might also get standardized. So I?d omit this sentence ?CUBIC [RFC8312] and BBR are prominent examples that have been discussed at length in the IETF but not yet standardized.?
> >
> >
> >

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 [email-masked]

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From: Neal Cardwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:09:32 -0500

I would suggest instead a recommendation that emphasizes a general phrase
that is less susceptible to bit rot over the next 10-20 years, like a
"congestion control algorithm from the IETF Standards Track".

Perhaps something like:

A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least some basic congestion control
algorithm suitable for avoiding congestion collapse conditions
(MUST-19). Multiple
suitable algorithms exist and have been widely used. Many TCP
implementations support a set of alternative algorithms that can be
configured for use on the endpoint. It is RECOMMENDED that a TCP
implementation include at least one congestion control algorithm from the
IETF Standards Track.

neal

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From: Martin Duke <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:42:19 -0800

I like Neal's change, though it might help understanding to say that 5681
is the only standard at time of writing.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 6:10 AM Neal Cardwell <ncardwell=
[email-masked]> wrote:

> algorithm suitable for avoiding congestion collapse conditions (MUST-19). Multiple

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From: Joe Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:11:18 -0800

Why not use that text in the MUST?

Otherwise we’re making a drastic change in requirements. 

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 10:44 AM, Martin Duke <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I like Neal's change, though it might help understanding to say that 5681 is the only standard at time of writing.
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 6:10 AM Neal Cardwell <ncardwell=[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:53 AM Rodney W. Grimes <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> 
>>> > +1 to proposed change.
>>> > 
>> I would suggest instead a recommendation that emphasizes a general phrase that is less susceptible to bit rot over the next 10-20 years, like a "congestion control algorithm from the IETF Standards Track".
>> 
>> Perhaps something like:
>> 
>> A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least some basic congestion control algorithm suitable for avoiding congestion collapse conditions (MUST-19). Multiple suitable algorithms exist and have been widely used. Many TCP implementations support a set of alternative algorithms that can be configured for use on the endpoint. It is RECOMMENDED that a TCP implementation include at least one congestion control algorithm from the IETF Standards Track.
>> 
>> neal
>>

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From: Christian Huitema <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:59:56 -0800

I am torn between two points. On one hand, I get Joe's argument that 
793bis is not the place to re-litigate the standardization of congestion 
control algorithms. On the other hand, I resent that loss-based 
congestion control like Reno or Cubic pretty much caused the buffer 
bloat issue. If we want to deliver low latency across the Internet, 
implementations will have to move away from Reno and Cubic and adopt CC 
algorithms that avoid building large queues. Yes, 793bis is not the 
place to discuss such algorithms. But we should avoid a message that 
enshrines loss based congestion control forever. Which is why I like 
Neal's formulation. It is reasonably neutral, but it also does not 
mortgage the future.

-- Christian Huitema

On 12/10/2020 10:42 AM, Martin Duke wrote:
> I like Neal's change, though it might help understanding to say that 
> 5681 is the only standard at time of writing.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 6:10 AM Neal Cardwell 
> <ncardwell=[email-masked] 
> <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:53 AM Rodney W. Grimes
>     <[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
>
>         > +1 to proposed change.
>         >
>     I would suggest instead a recommendation that emphasizes a general
>     phrase that is less susceptible to bit rot over the next 10-20
>     years, like a "congestion control algorithm from the IETF
>     Standards Track".
>
>     Perhaps something like:
>
>     A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least some basic congestion
>     control algorithm suitable for avoiding congestion collapse
>     conditions (MUST-19). Multiple suitable algorithms exist and have
>     been widely used. Many TCP implementations support a set of
>     alternative algorithms that can be configured for use on the
>     endpoint. It is RECOMMENDED that a TCP implementation include at
>     least one congestion control algorithm from the IETF Standards Track.
>
>     neal
>
>     <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpm>
>
>

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From: Yuchung Cheng <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:02:23 -0800

Joe: could you clarify what's the change you're suggesting?

I like s/RECOMMENDED/MUST in Neal's text.

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:40:56 -0800

I’d suggest the following. The goal is to REMOVE the idea that “do what ever you want as long as it’s congestion control” is OK.

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A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least one congestion control algorithm from the IETF Standards Track (MUST-19). Multiple suitable algorithms exist and have been widely used. Many TCP implementations support a set of alternative algorithms that can be configured for use on the endpoint, but all MUST be standards-track.

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From: Christian Huitema <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:58:28 -0800

> A TCP endpoint MUST implement at least one congestion control algorithm from the IETF Standards Track (MUST-19). Multiple suitable algorithms exist and have been widely used. Many TCP implementatio…

I am not sure what "MUST be standards-track" means. Obviously that 
cannot mean "approved as a standard track RFC", because that's what the 
first sentence already says. You may want to say "described in an 
Internet draft submitted for standardization", but that's a pretty low 
bar. Overall, I think it is better to just keep Neal's original formulation.

-- Christian Huitema

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:41:41 -0800

FWIW - I’m OK with Neal’s suggestion but am concerned that the first sentence is too open. See my other post for my suggested alternate.

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Christian Huitema <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> I am torn between two points. On one hand, I get Joe's argument that 793bis is not the place to re-litigate the standardization of congestion control algorithms. On the other hand, I resent that loss-based congestion control like Reno or Cubic pretty much caused the buffer bloat issue. If we want to deliver low latency across the Internet, implementations will have to move away from Reno and Cubic and adopt CC algorithms that avoid building large queues. Yes, 793bis is not the place to discuss such algorithms. But we should avoid a message that enshrines loss based congestion control forever. Which is why I like Neal's formulation. It is reasonably neutral, but it also does not mortgage the future.
> 
> -- Christian Huitema
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 6:10 AM Neal Cardwell <ncardwell=[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:53 AM Rodney W. Grimes <[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
>> > +1 to proposed change.
>> >

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From: Jonathan Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:21:04 +0200

> On 10 Dec, 2020, at 10:40 pm, Joseph Touch <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 

The above phrasing is problematic because it would make a TCP implementing CUBIC (which is currently experimental) non-compliant, even if it defaulted to NewReno (which is standards track).  Better would be:

1: MUST implement at least one standards-track algorithm.  Presently that means NewReno, but it looks like CUBIC will be added to the list in the foreseeable future.  Rationale: these algorithms have been proven through long experience.

2: MAY implement other algorithms, which MUST all be "suitable for avoiding congestion collapse conditions" as Neal put it.

I think this results in two distinct MUST requirements, but more granularly captures the actual needs - which include responsible experimentation.

 - Jonathan Morton

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:50:37 -0800

If you want an set of rules, IMO:

- MUST implement at least one standards-track CC alg
- MUST default to a standards-track CC all
- MAY implement other CCs, as long as they are TCP-friendly as per RFCxxx (can’t recall which one would be best)

I don’t think. “Avoids congestion collapse” is sufficient. We need to ensure they’re not aggressive vs. TCP standards CC lags.

Joe

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
>

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:52:23 -0800

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Christian Huitema <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am not sure what "MUST be standards-track" means. Obviously that cannot mean "approved as a standard track RFC", because that's what the first sentence already says.

First says “MUST do at least one”
Last says “can do others, but they MUST be standards too” - 
	- agreed that’s too strong, but we do need “TCP-friendly" there, not just “avoids collapse”.
	- so, IMO, “MAY do others, but each one MUST be TCP-friendly”

Joe

> You may want to say "described in an Internet draft submitted for standardization", but that's a pretty low bar. Overall, I think it is better to just keep Neal's original formulation.
> 
> -- Christian Huitema
>

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From: Christian Huitema <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:44:47 -0800

> 	- so, IMO, “MAY do others, but each one MUST be TCP-friendly”

I would not be too happy with that. The usual meaning of TCP friendly 
is, "competes fairly with a TCP implementation using New Reno." One 
could argue that Cubic does not do that, at least not on large BDP 
paths: it will drive the packet error rate to a level at which Reno 
collapses. One could also argue that both Reno and Cubic have some very 
undesirable side effects, such as increasing the sizes of queues at the 
bottleneck. I want a future Internet that get rid of those side effects, 
not one in which we get long queues and large latency forever. "Avoid 
collapse" would suit me fine. If we want to say something more, we have 
to define what TCP Friendly actually means -- avoid starving 
implementations using Reno would be OK, enforce parity with Reno would 
not be.

-- Christian Huitema

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:15:51 -0800

Would you accept “friendly to TCP standards-track CC”?

That opens it up beyond Reno, allows it to evolve, but still keeps a leash on the solutions.

"Avoids collapse” is too open; it allows aggressive approaches that themselves get capacity at the expense of others. That’s the issue - not merely whether collapse occurs.

Joe

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Christian Huitema <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> I would not be too happy with that. The usual meaning of TCP friendly is, "competes fairly with a TCP implementation using New Reno." One could argue that Cubic does not do that, at least not on large BDP paths: it will drive the packet error rate to a level at which Reno collapses. One could also argue that both Reno and Cubic have some very undesirable side effects, such as increasing the sizes of queues at the bottleneck. I want a future Internet that get rid of those side effects, not one in which we get long queues and large latency forever. "Avoid collapse" would suit me fine. If we want to say something more, we have to define what TCP Friendly actually means -- avoid starving implementations using Reno would be OK, enforce parity with Reno would not be.
> 
> -- Christian Huitema
> 
>

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From: Christian Huitema <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:52:34 -0800

Something like “friendly to TCP standards-track CC”, or something like 
"following standard recommendations for TCP-Friendliness." But at this 
point I think I talked too much, will let others chime in.

-- Christian Huitema

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From: Jonathan Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:01:56 +0200

> On 11 Dec, 2020, at 2:52 am, Christian Huitema <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Something like “friendly to TCP standards-track CC”, or something like "following standard recommendations for TCP-Friendliness." But at this point I think I talked too much, will let others chime in.

Isn't there an RFC somewhere which talks about what you should take into account when designing a congestion control algorithm?  It would surely be appropriate to reference that.

 - Jonathan Morton

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:24:06 -0800

RFC 5681 defines TCP CC, but does not define what constitutes “friendly”. The closest is RFC 5348, but that defines rate control known to be TCP friendly, not the parameters that define “TCP friendly” in general. The closest I could find was RFC8312, which as an oddly reverse definition that “friendly” means “gives its users at least as much BW as conventional TCP” - but that’s not friendly at all, frankly (I can easily design something that does that by turning off CC) — it really should be more like “gives its users no more BW than conventional TCP”.

Anyone else find anything?

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
>

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From: Jonathan Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:00:20 +0200

> On 11 Dec, 2020, at 7:24 am, Joseph Touch <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 

I was thinking of RFC-5033.

 - Jonathan Morton

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From: Joseph Touch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:05:40 -0800

That works.

> On Dec 10, 2020, at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
>

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From: Markku Kojo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:25:37 +0200 (EET)

Hi,

I believe all necessary wording on what is required from alternative 
TCP congestion control algorithms and "TCP friendliness" is in the 
existing BCPs: RFC 2914, RFC 5033, and RFC 4774. RFC 2914 and 4774 use 
terms such as "conformant congestion control", "conformant TCP", and 
"TCP-compatible". RFC 5033 uses term "TCP-friendly".

I'd suggest using minimal text on "TCP friendlyness" and citing RFC 2914, 
RFC 5033 (and possibly RFC 4774) for this matter.

What the current text and all proposed texts misses is exponential 
back-off of RTO. MUST in RFC 1122. If it is not included in RFC973bis 
it is easy to miss by an implementer who is not that familier with CC.
RFC 5681 does not mention exponential back-off of RTO, even though 
it is indispensable congestion control algorithm to avoid congestion 
collapse as stated in RFC 5033 and RFC 2914; algorithms in RFC 5681 alone 
are not enough. RFC 6298 describes it as MUST but does not identify it as 
a congestion control algorithm. RFC 6298 also makes it clear that the 
backed-off RTO must be kept until a successful transmission of 
non-retransmitted data, i.e., for the next segment, but it is not a 
normative MUST. Original Karn's algorithm emphasises this, too.

Exponential back-off of RTO is also important for IoT since a constrained 
device might not have enough memory to have a larger window than 1 MSS. 
In such a TCP implementation exponential back-off of RTO is the only CC 
algorithm that is useful and needed.

Furthermore, only RFC 1122 talks about "an algorithm" and clarifies: 
combining "slow start" with "congestion avoidance". However, the original 
congavoid paper, RFC 5681 and many other RFCs describe slow start, 
congestion avoidance, etc. as separate algorithms. Alternative CC 
algorithms usually modify one or a few of these algorithms. Current text 
reads like it would be ok to implement just one of the algorithms, fast 
retransmit, for example.

In the RFC series slow start, congestion avoidance and exponential 
back-off of RTO are MUST. Fast rexmit and fast recovery are SHOULD, i.e., 
they are more or less performance enhancements, very useful though.

So how about something along the following lines:

  RFC 1122 required implementation of Van Jacobson's congestion control
  algorithms slow start and congestion avoidance together with
  exponential back-off for successive RTO values for the same segment.
  RFC 2581 provided IETF Standards Track description of slow start and
  congestion avoidance, along with fast retransmit and fast recovery.
  RFC 5681 is the current description of these algorithms and is the
  current Standard Track specification providing guidelines for TCP
  congestion control. RFC 6298 describes exponential back-off of RTO
  values, including keeping the backed-off value until a subsequent 
segment with new data has been sent and acknowledged.

 A TCP endpoint MUST implement the basic congestion control algorithms
  slow start, congestion avoidance, and exponential back-off of RTO
  to avoid creating congestion collapse conditions (MUST-19). RFC 5681
  and RFC 6298 describe the basic algorithms on the IETF Standards
  Track that are broadly applicable. Multiple other suitable algorithms
  exist and have been widely used. Many TCP implementations support
  a set of alternative algorithms that can be configured for use on
  the endpoint. An endpoint may implement such alternative algorithms
  provided that the algorithms are conformant with the TCP
  specifications from the IETF Standards Track as described in RFC 2914,
  RFC 5033, and RFC 8961.

  ...

/Markku