Technical Summary
This document specifies ROHC-TCP, a Robust Header Compression
(ROHC) profile for TCP/IP packets. ROHC-TCP provides efficient
compression of TCP headers including TCP options. It obsoletes the
previous specification of RFC 4996 and corrects SACK compression
method and clarifies some of the other compression methods.
Working Group Summary
The correction was initiated by the authors when an interoperability
issue was reported for the SACK compression. There is no controversy
that caused this document to end up without a working group. The new
document included only smaller changes to RFC 4996 and the most
suitable candidate, the rohc working group, was concluded over two
years ago. The draft has been posted on the rohc mailing list which
is still in use.
Document Quality
There are existing implementations of RFC 4996 (ROHC-TCP). The
ROHC-FN formal language have been reviewed by ROHC-FN author Robert
Finking as well as implementers.
Personnel
Carl Knutsson is the Document Shepherd and Wesley Eddy is the
responsible AD.