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Principles & Constraints. Philip Eardley. Application-agnostic. The CONEX protocol should be open about (independent of) the responses it allows to the CONEX information, supporting a diversity of traffic management practices by networks and end-hosts.
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Principles & Constraints Philip Eardley
Application-agnostic • The CONEX protocol should be open about (independent of) the responses it allows to the CONEX information, supporting a diversity of traffic management practices by networks and end-hosts. • The proposed WG will encourage experiments on traffic management, but not standardise them (in order to reduce its scope).
CONEX information is in IP header • Visibility of CONEX information – it should be easily visible to all network elements (even if the data traffic is encrypted) • in order to ensure the widest possible applicability – • it is visible to both end-systems (to help them control their sending rate) and to network managers (to help them manage a bottleneck, whether traffic originates from their own users or from other networks). • Granularity of CONEX information – it should be sufficiently granular to allow near real-time, per packet traffic management. • So that any node can see the impact of the packets it is asked to forward. • The CONEX information is inevitably a minimum of 1 RTT out-of-date • The above 2 bullets suggest that the CONEX information is carried in the IP header. • Signalling of whole path congestion information is thus explicit, rather than implicitly through packet loss, delay or jitter, which allows a faster and more accurate reaction. • The proposed WG will specify how to encapsulate CONEX information (header bits, interpretation) (v4 & v6)
Feedback path congestion info • The receiver needs to inform the sender what the total path congestion is • Simplest case, this is what the sender sets as the initial CONEX information • (TBD: do this using TCP mod; RTP/UDP;) • (TBD: whether the capability of an ECN receiver is sufficient).
Threats analysis • The proposed WG will study the threats, especially from falsifying or suppressing the CONEX information
Deployability analysis • The proposed WG will study technology to support incremental deployment steps: • ECN routers vs non-ECN routers vs CONEX routers; • Receivers with CONEX-capability, ECN-capability, or neither; • Opportunistic deployment.