[e2e] DCP mail list

[falk at ISI.EDU]

Hello-

A mail list has been created to discuss the Datagram Control Protocol
(DCP).  DCP is a minimal general purpose transport-layer protocol
providing only two core functions:

 - the establishment, maintenance and teardown of an unreliable packet
   flow.

 - congestion control of that packet flow.

Within the constraints of providing these core functions, DCP aims
to be a general purpose protocol, minimizing the overhead of packet
header size or end-node processing as much as possible.  Therefore,
DCP is as simple as possible, and as far as reasonably possible,
it should avoid providing higher-level transport functionality.
DCP will provide an congestion-controlled, unreliable packet stream,
without TCP's reliability or in-order delivery semantics.  Additional
unicast, flow-based application functionality can be layered over
DCP.

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http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dcp.

Updated drafts have been submitted to the IETF and can be found at
http://www.aciri.org/kohler/dcp/.

A draft working group charter will be sent to the list in the next
couple days.

A BoF is scheduled at IETF-52 in Salt Lake City on Tuesday at 5pm.
The BoF agenda can be found at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/01dec/dcp.txt.

--aaron