RFC 3168 on The Addition of ECN to IP (fwd)

RFC 3168 on The Addition of ECN to IP (fwd)

[Keith Owens]

For those people who complained that ECN was only a draft, it is now a
proposed standard.  I wonder what excuse will be used now for not
upgrading the broken routers :).

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        RFC 3168

        Title:	    The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification
                    (ECN) to IP
        Author(s):  K. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, D. Black
        Status:     Standards Track
	Date:       September 2001
        Mailbox:    kk@teraoptic.com, floyd@aciri.org,
                    black_david@emc.com 
        Pages:      63
        Characters: 170966
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3168.txt


This memo specifies the incorporation of ECN (Explicit Congestion
Notification) to TCP and IP, including ECN's use of two bits in the
IP header.

This document is a product of the Transport Area Working Group of the
IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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Re: RFC 3168 on The Addition of ECN to IP (fwd)

[Kai Henningsen]

kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens)  wrote on 21.09.01 in <7910.1001049576@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>:

> For those people who complained that ECN was only a draft, it is now a
> proposed standard.  I wonder what excuse will be used now for not
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> upgrading the broken routers :).

Guess.


MfG Kai