Proposal for Updates to Guidance on Packet Reordering
draft-white-intarea-reordering-04
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(intarea WG)
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| Authors | Greg White , Ingemar Johansson , Dibakar Das , Chris Box | ||
| Last updated | 2026-08-27 (Latest revision 2026-07-06) | ||
| Replaced by | draft-ietf-intarea-reordering | ||
| RFC stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Document shepherd | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Replaced by draft-ietf-intarea-reordering | |
| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Abstract
Several link technology standards mandate that equipment guarantee in-order delivery of layer 2 frames, apparently due to a belief that this is required by higher layer protocols. To meet this requirement they implement a "resequencing" operation to restore the original packet order. This can introduce delays that result in net degradation of performance. Modern TCP and QUIC implementations support features that significantly improve their tolerance to out- of-order delivery. This draft is intended to provide new information for layer 2 technology standards regarding the need to assure in- order delivery to support IETF protocols.
Authors
Greg White
Ingemar Johansson
Dibakar Das
Chris Box
(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)