TCP Large Windows (TCPLW)

Charter 

Chair(s)

      David Borman:  dab@cray.com

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Description of Working Group

     The TCP Large Windows Working Group is chartered to produce a
     specification for the use of TCP on high-delay, high-bandwidth
     paths.  To this end, this working group recommended ``TCP
     extensions for long-delay paths'' (RFC 1072), and ``TCP
     Extension for High-Speed Paths'' (RFC 1185) be published
     jointly as a Proposed Standard.  Deficiencies in the technical
     details of the documents were identified by the End-to-End
     Research Group of the IRTF. Rather than progress the standard
     with known deficiencies, the IESG tasked the End-to-End
     Research Group to fix and merge these two documents into a
     single protocol specification document.  This review was done
     on the e2e-interest@isi.edu mailing list.

     The TCP Large Windows Working Group is being resurrected for a
     one time meeting, to review and if appropriate, approve this
     new document.

Goals and Milestones

Done     Review the TCP Extended Window Size proposal from the IRSG End
         to End Research Group and if acceptable, recommend it for
         standards status.


Request For Comments

RFC 1323   ``TCP Extensions for High Performance''