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Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control Mechanisms
RFC 5166

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2018-12-20
11 (System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document discusses the metrics to be considered in an evaluation of new or modified congestion …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document discusses the metrics to be considered in an evaluation of new or modified congestion control mechanisms for the Internet. These include metrics for the evaluation of new transport protocols, of proposed modifications to TCP, of application-level congestion control, and of Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanisms in the router. This document is the first in a series of documents aimed at improving the models that we use in the evaluation of transport protocols.

This document is a product of the Transport Modeling Research Group (TMRG), and has received detailed feedback from many members of the Research Group (RG). As the document tries to make clear, there is not necessarily a consensus within the research community (or the IETF community, the vendor community, the operations community, or any other community) about the metrics that congestion control mechanisms should be designed to optimize, in terms of trade-offs between throughput and delay, fairness between competing flows, and the like. However, we believe that there is a clear consensus that congestion control mechanisms should be evaluated in terms of trade-offs between a range of metrics, rather than in terms of optimizing for a single metric. This memo provides information for the Internet community.')
2017-05-16
11 (System) Changed document authors from "" to "Sally Floyd"
2015-10-14
11 (System) Notify list changed from draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics@ietf.org to (None)
2012-08-22
11 (System) post-migration administrative database adjustment to the No Objection position for Russ Housley
2008-03-25
11 Amy Vezza State Changes to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue by Amy Vezza
2008-03-25
11 Amy Vezza [Note]: 'RFC 5166' added by Amy Vezza
2008-03-21
11 (System) RFC published
2008-03-12
11 Amy Vezza State Changes to RFC Ed Queue from Approved-announcement sent by Amy Vezza
2008-02-28
11 (System) IANA Action state changed to No IC from In Progress
2008-02-28
11 (System) IANA Action state changed to In Progress
2008-02-28
11 Amy Vezza IESG state changed to Approved-announcement sent
2008-02-28
11 Amy Vezza IESG has approved the document
2008-02-19
11 Amy Vezza IESG state changed to Approved-announcement sent
2008-02-19
11 Amy Vezza IESG has approved the document
2008-02-19
11 Amy Vezza Closed "Approve" ballot
2007-11-30
11 (System) Removed from agenda for telechat - 2007-11-29
2007-11-29
11 Amy Vezza State Changes to Approved-announcement to be sent from IESG Evaluation by Amy Vezza
2007-11-29
11 David Ward [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by David Ward
2007-11-29
11 Ron Bonica [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Ron Bonica
2007-11-29
11 Mark Townsley [Ballot Position Update] Position for Mark Townsley has been changed to No Objection from Yes by Mark Townsley
2007-11-28
11 Magnus Westerlund [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded by Magnus Westerlund
2007-11-27
11 Russ Housley [Ballot Position Update] Position for Russ Housley has been changed to No Objection from Discuss by Russ Housley
2007-11-25
11 Cullen Jennings [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Cullen Jennings
2007-11-23
11 Lisa Dusseault [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded by Lisa Dusseault
2007-11-22
11 Tim Polk [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Tim Polk
2007-11-22
11 Lars Eggert State Changes to IESG Evaluation from IESG Evaluation::AD Followup by Lars Eggert
2007-11-22
11 Lars Eggert Placed on agenda for telechat - 2007-11-29 by Lars Eggert
2007-11-15
11 Amy Vezza State Changes to IESG Evaluation::AD Followup from IESG Evaluation by Amy Vezza
2007-11-15
11 Ross Callon [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Ross Callon
2007-11-15
11 Mark Townsley [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded by Mark Townsley
2007-11-15
11 Dan Romascanu [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Dan Romascanu
2007-11-15
11 Chris Newman [Ballot Position Update] New position, No Objection, has been recorded by Chris Newman
2007-11-15
11 Jari Arkko [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded by Jari Arkko
2007-11-14
11 Samuel Weiler Request for Telechat review by SECDIR Completed. Reviewer: Chris Lonvick.
2007-11-12
11 Russ Housley
[Ballot discuss]
draft-irtf-rfcs-01 proposes a different set of IESG notes for
  documents from the IRTF.  However, it is not approved yet.  How
  can …
[Ballot discuss]
draft-irtf-rfcs-01 proposes a different set of IESG notes for
  documents from the IRTF.  However, it is not approved yet.  How
  can we be applying it before it is approved as a BCP?
2007-11-12
11 Russ Housley [Ballot Position Update] New position, Discuss, has been recorded by Russ Housley
2007-11-08
11 Amanda Baber
[Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt Based on the Working Group Summary, I believe that the<br>second variant suggested in Appendix A of draft-irtf-rfcs-0<br>is appropriate …
[Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt Based on the Working Group Summary, I believe that the<br>second variant suggested in Appendix A of draft-irtf-rfcs-0<br>is appropriate for this document: "This document in not an IETF Internet Standard.  It represents<br>the individual opinion(s) of one or more members of the TMRG<br>Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force. It may be<br>considered for standardization by the IETF or adoption as a<br>IRTF Research Group consensus document in the future."' added by Amanda Baber
2007-11-08
11 Amanda Baber IANA Evaluation comments:

As described in the IANA Considerations section, we understand this document
to have NO IANA Actions.
2007-11-03
11 Samuel Weiler Request for Telechat review by SECDIR is assigned to Chris Lonvick
2007-11-03
11 Samuel Weiler Request for Telechat review by SECDIR is assigned to Chris Lonvick
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert State Changes to IESG Evaluation from AD Evaluation by Lars Eggert
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert
[Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt Based on the Working Group Summary, I believe that the<br>second variant suggested in Appendix A of draft-irtf-rfcs-0<br>is appropriate …
[Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt Based on the Working Group Summary, I believe that the<br>second variant suggested in Appendix A of draft-irtf-rfcs-0<br>is appropriate for this document: "This document in not an IETF Internet Standard.  It represents<br>the individual opinion(s) of one or more members of the TMRG<br>Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force. It may be<br>considered for standardization by the IETF or adoption as a<br>IRTF Research Group consensus document in the future."' added by Lars Eggert
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert
[Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt<br><br>Based on the Working Group Summary, I believe that the<br>second variant suggested in Appendix A of draft-irtf-rfcs-0<br>is appropriate …
[Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt<br><br>Based on the Working Group Summary, I believe that the<br>second variant suggested in Appendix A of draft-irtf-rfcs-0<br>is appropriate for this document:<br><br>"This document in not an IETF Internet Standard.  It represents<br>the individual opinion(s) of one or more members of the TMRG<br>Research Group of the Internet Research Task Force. It may be<br>considered for standardization by the IETF or adoption as a<br>IRTF Research Group consensus document in the future." <br>' added by Lars Eggert
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert [Ballot Position Update] New position, Yes, has been recorded for Lars Eggert
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert Ballot has been issued by Lars Eggert
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert Created "Approve" ballot
2007-11-02
11 (System) Ballot writeup text was added
2007-11-02
11 (System) Last call text was added
2007-11-02
11 (System) Ballot approval text was added
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert Placed on agenda for telechat - 2007-11-15 by Lars Eggert
2007-11-02
11 Lars Eggert [Note]: 'To be published according to draft-irtf-rfcs-01.txt' added by Lars Eggert
2007-10-31
11 Lars Eggert State Changes to AD Evaluation from Publication Requested by Lars Eggert
2007-10-31
11 Lars Eggert State Change Notice email list have been change to draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics@tools.ietf.org from sallyfloyd@mac.com
2007-10-31
11 Russ Housley Removed from agenda for telechat - 2007-11-01 by Russ Housley
2007-10-31
11 Russ Housley Responsible AD has been changed to Lars Eggert from Russ Housley
2007-10-31
11 Russ Housley Area acronymn has been changed to tsv from gen
2007-10-31
11 Russ Housley State Change Notice email list have been change to sallyfloyd@mac.com from ipr@ietf.org., draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics@tools.ietf.org
2007-10-31
11 Dinara Suleymanova Draft Added by Dinara Suleymanova in state Publication Requested
2007-10-06
11 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-11.txt
2007-07-31
10 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-10.txt
2007-03-28
09 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-09.txt
2007-03-06
08 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-08.txt
2007-02-09
07 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-07.txt
2006-12-06
06 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-06.txt
2006-11-28
05 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-05.txt
2006-08-08
04 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-04.txt
2006-06-27
03 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-03.txt
2006-06-02
02 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-02.txt
2005-10-17
01 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-01.txt
2005-08-25
00 (System) New version available: draft-irtf-tmrg-metrics-00.txt