TCP Large Windows (tcplw)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 06/02/2000

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     David Borman  <dab@bsdi.com>

 Transport Area Director(s):
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
     Allison Mankin  <mankin@isi.edu>

 Transport Area Advisor:
     Allison Mankin  <mankin@isi.edu>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:tcplw@bsdi.com
     To Subscribe:      tcplw-request@bsdi.com
     Archive:           

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. 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC1323 PS   MAY 92    TCP Extensions for High Performance 

RFC2018 PS   OCT 96    TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options