At the TCPSAT meeting last week in Los Angeles, there was
discussion about creating an Internet Draft discussing TCP
spoofing. Similar to the goals of the TCP over satellite
I-Ds, this draft would 1) educate people spoofing (or
considering it) on any risks of their approach (especially
when that approach had negative impact on traffic outside of
their domain) and 2) to perform a survey of what kind of
spoofing is being done in the Internet. Note that this is
not limited to TCP over satellite. Spoofing is being done
in other environments as well, such as connections over
transoceanic fiber.
There was a strong consensus in the working group to pursue
this and (with some guidance from the Transport Area
directors) a brief plan has been developed. A short,
informal meeting was held with interested folks at the IETF
to work out some details. There was general agreement that
spoofing means different things to different people but that
it is generally a pejorative term. To allow the group to
focus on the technical issues rather than the emotional
ones, I am suggesting that what we are talking about are
proxies that enhance TCP performance. Therefore, I propose
that we call this activity TCPPEP for, naturally, TCP
Performance Enhancing Proxies. Eric Travis and I led the
discussion and Eric will be posting a summary to the tcppep
list.
So, here's the plan:
* Create a mail list for discussion
* Solicit drafts from interested parties on what
mechanisms they are using
* Request a BOF at the August IETF in Chicago
* Create an Informational RFC documenting the groups
output
A mail list has been created. Here are the instructions:
> To subscribe to the TCP with Performance Enhancing Proxies mailing list, send mail to the following address:
>
> [email protected]
>
> With the following text in the body of the message.
>
> subscribe tcppep
>
> To send mail to the mailing list, send it to the following address.
>
> [email protected]
>
An archive is available through a web page at
http://tcppep.lerc.nasa.gov/tcppep/.
Also note there has been discussion of a workshop before the
next IETF to continue f2f discussions.
Please use the tcppep list for further discussion on this
topic.
--aaron
-- Aaron Falk (310) 814-4932 TRW, Inc Space & Electronics Group One Space Park Redondo Beach, CA 90278
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