An open ECN service in the IP layer

4/9/01


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An open ECN service in the IP layer

motivation

ECN in IETF tsvwg

“IP/ECN” status

“IP/ECN” contents

ECN code-points, not bits

buffer filling vs. starving (background to ECN/diffserv discussion)

from load to queue length

ECN mark/drop equivalence

ECN interactions with diffserv

implementation advice mark/drop equivalence

ECN mark/drop equivalence

multicast forwarding of ECN

multicast forwarding of ECN

IP’s ECN service to layer 4

UDP/ECN unsafe?

ECN & IP fragmentation

ECN & IP fragmentation

ECN & IP fragmentation solution

summary

Author: Bob Briscoe