[e2e] TCP "experiments"

[Joe Touch]

On Jul 28, 2013, at 1:09 AM, Jon Crowcroft <jon.crowcroft at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> ...your (minor) correctness point about abuse of code points is unfortunately almost unavoidable

The codepoints being abused are TCP options.

Those options are assigned for IETF standards. There are two current abuses:

	- self-assigned (squatted) codepoints 

	- widescale deployment of experimental codepoints

See draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options-06 for a solution to the latter, and a summary of examples of both.

These have been *entirely* avoidable. The new method lowers the bar for experiments, though they should still not be deployed into the wild without monitoring.

Joe