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Understanding Benefits and Pitfalls of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)

This draft document discusses the advantages and potential challenges of implementing Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in networks. It covers the benefits, deployment scenarios, pitfalls to be aware of, and recommendations for correct usage. The emphasis is on ensuring hosts and network devices react appropriately to ECN codepoints to support congestion control effectively.

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Understanding Benefits and Pitfalls of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)

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  1. The Benefits and Pitfalls of using Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)draft-ietf-aqm-ecn-benefits-00 Michael WelzlUniversity of Oslo Gorry FairhurstUniversity of Aberdeen 91st IETF Meeting Honolulu, Hawaii10 November 2014

  2. Draft goals • Point of draft: • document gains of ECN • includes less obvious gains • Could include deployment scenarios to illustrate benefit • NEW: now also “pitfalls” (next slide) • Out of scope: • To recommend a specific behavior

  3. Pitfalls • Policies that bleach and middlebox requirements to deploy • Also points to RFC6040 for correct use of tunnelling • Cheating by hosts • Possible need for mechanisms to verify if a path really supports ECN

  4. New conclusion(not “turn it on”, but “don’t break it”) • People configuring host stacks and network devices should ensure that their equipment correctly reacts to packets carrying ECN codepoints. • This includes: • routers not resetting the ECN codepoint to zero • middleboxes not resetting the ECN codepoint to zero • correctly updating the codepoint when congested • routers correctly supporting alternate ECN semantics ([RFC4774]) • hosts receiving ECN marks correctly reflecting them

  5. Next Steps • Aim to WGLC after next (Dallas) IETF! • Deployment scenarios / use cases still pretty empty • This section could be small • Text donations welcome • Other comments?

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