Network Working Group M. Tuexen Internet-Draft I. Ruengeler Intended status: Standards Track Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences Expires: August 20, 2009 R. Stewart Researcher February 16, 2009 SACK-IMMEDIATELY extension for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol draft-tuexen-tsvwg-sctp-sack-immediately-01.txt Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on August 20, 2009. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Tuexen, et al. Expires August 20, 2009 [Page 1] Internet-Draft SACK-IMMEDIATELY February 2009 Abstract This document defines a method for a sender of a DATA chunk to indicate that the corresponding SACK chunk should be sent back immediately. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. The I-bit in the DATA Chunk Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.1. Sender Side Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.2. Receiver Side Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Interoperability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Tuexen, et al. Expires August 20, 2009 [Page 2] Internet-Draft SACK-IMMEDIATELY February 2009 1. Introduction [RFC4960] states that an SCTP implementation should use delayed SACKs. In combination with the Nagle algorithm, reduced congestion windows after timeouts, the handling of the SHUTDOWN-SENDING state, or other situations this might result in reduced performance of the protocol. This document describes a simple extension of the SCTP DATA chunk by defining a new flag, the I-bit. The sender indicates by setting this bit that the corresponding SACK chunk should be sent back without delaying it. 2. Conventions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 3. The I-bit in the DATA Chunk Header The following Figure 1 shows the extended DATA chunk. 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Type = 0 | Res |I|U|B|E| Length | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | TSN | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Stream Identifier | Stream Sequence Number | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Payload Protocol Identifier | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ \ \ / User Data / \ \ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Figure 1 The only difference between the DATA chunk in Figure 1 and the DATA chunk defined in [RFC4960] is the addition of the I-bit in the flags field of the chunk header. Tuexen, et al. Expires August 20, 2009 [Page 3] Internet-Draft SACK-IMMEDIATELY February 2009 4. Procedures 4.1. Sender Side Considerations Whenever the sender of a DATA chunk can benefit from the corresponding SACK chunk being sent back without delay, the sender MAY set the I-bit in the DATA chunk header. Reasons for setting the I-bit include o The sender has not enough queued user data to send the remaining DATA chunks due to the Nagle algorithm. o The sending of a DATA chunk fills the congestion or receiver window. o The sender is in the SHUTDOWN-PENDING state. o The sender has reduced its RTO.Min such that a retransmission timeout will occur if the receiver would delay its SACK. 4.2. Receiver Side Considerations On reception of an SCTP packet containing a DATA chunk with the I-bit set, the receiver SHOULD NOT delay the sending of the corresponding SACK chunk and SHOULD send it back immediately. 5. Interoperability Considerations According to [RFC4960] a receiver of a DATA chunk with the I-bit set should ignore this bit when it does not support the extension described in this document. Since the sender of the DATA chunk is able to handle this case, there is no requirement for negotiating the feature described in this document. 6. IANA Considerations There are no actions required from IANA. 7. Security Considerations This document does not add any additional security considerations in addition to the ones given in [RFC4960]. Tuexen, et al. Expires August 20, 2009 [Page 4] Internet-Draft SACK-IMMEDIATELY February 2009 8. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4960] Stewart, R., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol", RFC 4960, September 2007. Authors' Addresses Michael Tuexen Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences Stegerwaldstr. 39 48565 Steinfurt Germany Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de Irene Ruengeler Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences Stegerwaldstr. 39 48565 Steinfurt Germany Email: i.ruengeler@fh-muenster.de Randall R. Stewart Researcher Chapin, SC 29036 USA Phone: Email: randall@lakerest.net Tuexen, et al. Expires August 20, 2009 [Page 5]