AuthorsB. Briscoe
TitlePropagating Explicit Congestion Notification Across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim
AfilliationCommunication Systems
Project(s)TimeIn: Traffic behaviour of interactive time-dependent thin streams on the modern Internet
StatusAccepted
Publication TypeTechnical reports
Year of Publication2016
Numberg-rfc6040update-shim-00
Date Published11/2016
PublisherInternet Engineering Task Force
KeywordsArchitecture, congestion, Control, Data Communication, Encapsulation, Explicit Notification, Internet, Layering, Management, Monitoring, networks, Protocol Engineering, QoS, Tunnels
Abstract

RFC 6040 on "Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification" made the rules for propagation of ECN consistent for all forms of IP in IP tunnel. This specification extends the scope of RFC 6040 to include tunnels where two IP headers are separated by a shim header that cannot stand alone.
Notes

(Work in Progress)
URLhttp://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-briscoe-tsvwg-rfc6040update-shim
Citation Key25061