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More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) Feedback in TCP
draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-34

Yes

(Zaheduzzaman Sarker)

No Objection

Gunter Van de Velde
Jim Guichard
(Francesca Palombini)
(John Scudder)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 32 and is now closed.

Deb Cooley
No Objection
Comment (2025-02-15 for -32) Not sent
Thanks to Scott Kelly for both secdir reviews.
Erik Kline
No Objection
Comment (2025-02-16 for -32) Sent
# Internet AD comments for draft-ietf-tcpm-accurate-ecn-32
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## Nits

### S1.4

* "expirience" -> "experience"

* "Remote Direct Access Memory" -> "Remote Direct Memory Access"
Gunter Van de Velde
No Objection
Jim Guichard
No Objection
Roman Danyliw
No Objection
Comment (2025-02-17 for -32) Not sent
Thank you to Elwyn B. Davies for the GENART review.  Please review the feedback as there a number of suggestions for improved clarity.

** Section 7.  Explicitly name the registries that are going to be updated

OLD
The flag will now be defined as:
NEW
The flag will now be defined as the following in the “TCP Header Flags” registry in the “Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Parameters” registry group:

OLD
These values are defined as:
NEW
These values are defined as the following in the “TCP Option Kind Numbers” registry in the “Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Parameters” registry group:
Éric Vyncke
No Objection
Comment (2025-02-20 for -32) Sent
Thanks for the work in this document, I only briefly browsed through it as it is really outside of my expertise even if the text is clear (BTW, I hope that this complex specification and re-use of one flag have been heavily tested in real networks). 

Nevertheless some comments:

Should "AccECN" be part of the title and in the abstract ? This could help searches.

The term `middlebox` is often used without a proper definition or reference and it seems to cover a lot of different roles from TCP offload to TCP normalizers (cfr section 3.3)

Section 1, any chance to get some explanations without reading RFC 7560 about `DCTCP [RFC8257] or L4S [RFC9330] need to know when more than one marking is received` ?

In the same section `So its applicability is intended to include all public and private IP networks`, the use of public/private is unusual, but I hope that everyone understands the same concept.

Section 1.4, s/two bit field/two-bit field/

Section 7, I wonder why there is a note to remove the IANA request. It is also unclear who is instructed to remove the text (I guess RFC Editor).
Zaheduzzaman Sarker Former IESG member
Yes
Yes (for -32) Unknown

                            
Francesca Palombini Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (for -32) Not sent

                            
John Scudder Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (for -32) Not sent

                            
Warren Kumari Former IESG member
No Objection
No Objection (2025-02-18 for -32) Not sent
Nice to see this finally moving ahead.
Also nice to see the (linked) implementations...