A Minimal Set of Transport Services for End Systems
draft-ietf-taps-minset-11
TAPS M. Welzl
Internet-Draft S. Gjessing
Intended status: Informational University of Oslo
Expires: March 31, 2019 September 27, 2018
A Minimal Set of Transport Services for End Systems
draft-ietf-taps-minset-11
Abstract
This draft recommends a minimal set of Transport Services offered by
end systems, and gives guidance on choosing among the available
mechanisms and protocols. It is based on the set of transport
features in RFC 8303.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Deriving the minimal set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. The Reduced Set of Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. CONNECTION Related Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. DATA Transfer Related Transport Features . . . . . . . . 8
4.2.1. Sending Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2.2. Receiving Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2.3. Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.1. Sending Messages, Receiving Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. Stream Schedulers Without Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3. Early Data Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.4. Sender Running Dry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.5. Capacity Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.6. Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.7. Packet Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. The Minimal Set of Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.1. ESTABLISHMENT, AVAILABILITY and TERMINATION . . . . . . . 14
6.2. MAINTENANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.2.1. Connection groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.2.2. Individual connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3. DATA Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3.1. Sending Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.3.2. Receiving Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Appendix A. The Superset of Transport Features . . . . . . . . . 25
A.1. CONNECTION Related Transport Features . . . . . . . . . . 26
A.2. DATA Transfer Related Transport Features . . . . . . . . 42
A.2.1. Sending Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
A.2.2. Receiving Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
A.2.3. Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Appendix B. Revision information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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