Skip to main content

A Transport Independent Bandwidth Modifier for the Session Description Protocol (SDP)
draft-ietf-mmusic-sdp-bwparam-06

Yes

(Allison Mankin)
(Jon Peterson)

No Objection

(Alex Zinin)
(Bert Wijnen)
(Bill Fenner)
(Harald Alvestrand)
(Margaret Cullen)
(Ned Freed)
(Russ Housley)
(Thomas Narten)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 06 and is now closed.

Allison Mankin Former IESG member
Yes
Yes () Unknown

                            
Jon Peterson Former IESG member
Yes
Yes () Unknown

                            
Alex Zinin Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Bert Wijnen Former IESG member
(was Discuss) No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Bill Fenner Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Harald Alvestrand Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Margaret Cullen Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Ned Freed Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Russ Housley Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown

                            
Steven Bellovin Former IESG member
(was Discuss) No Objection
No Objection (2003-12-23) Unknown
There are many other things that can cause erroneous bandwidth estimates, including various forms of tunneling (GRE, IPsec, 6to4) and link-layer encapsulation -- should those be discussed here?
Ted Hardie Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (2003-12-16) Unknown
I found section 3.5 on the potential interaction with DCCP somewhat lacking.  It's clear that using
DCCP for real time media will be different in a number of ways from the current flows over UDP,
and while it is good that the draft notes the likely difference in header size, it hardly seems
like the most important thing to note.  The use of different congestion control algorithms 
seems far more salient; see draft-phelan-dccp-media-00.txt for a description of how
TFRC's "contentment penalty" might apply when wrong guesses about available bandwidth 
come into play.

That section of the draft may well date back some time, of course, so it may be unfair to
ask for changes, and I certainly wouldn't block the draft for this.  But a review by the DCCP
folk might imrpove this a good bit; it also might show the need for a separate draft to discuss
the DCCP-specific interactions here.
Thomas Narten Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection () Unknown