Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
RFC 4774
Yes
No Objection
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 02 and is now closed.
Lars Eggert Yes
(Jari Arkko; former steering group member) (was Discuss) Yes
(Magnus Westerlund; former steering group member) Yes
(Sam Hartman; former steering group member) (was Discuss) Yes
(Bill Fenner; former steering group member) No Objection
(Brian Carpenter; former steering group member) No Objection
Change to caption agreed by author after Gen-ART review: OLD: Figure 1: Alternate-ECN traffic, an old router using RFC-3168 ECN. NEW: Figure 1: Alternate-ECN traffic, an old router, using RFC-3168 ECN, that is congested and ready to drop or mark the arriving packet.
(Cullen Jennings; former steering group member) No Objection
I think this should be informational not BCP.
(Dan Romascanu; former steering group member) No Objection
(David Kessens; former steering group member) No Objection
(Jon Peterson; former steering group member) No Objection
(Lisa Dusseault; former steering group member) No Objection
(Mark Townsley; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection
With statements like:
This document
doesn't comment on whether a mechanism would be required to ensure
that the alternate-ECN semantics would not be let loose on the
global Internet. This document also doesn't comment on the chances
that this scenario would be considered acceptable for
standardization by the IETF community.
This document, at best, should be Informational or Experimental. I think statements like this are well in violation of principals in BCP 61 also.
This is not part of my discuss only because Sam is holding a similar discuss for this.
Grammer nit: Section 4.1 s/don't/doesn't
(Ross Callon; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection
(Russ Housley; former steering group member) No Objection
(Ted Hardie; former steering group member) No Objection
So, my reading of the BCP here is "Think about these issues before mucking with ECN alternate semantics". I'm a shrug as to whether that is a BCP, but I can see the confusion.