Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[Matthew J Zekauskas <>]

So, folks on this list would probably be interested in the TANA BOF at 
IETF that occurred today.

Stas has been busy since he left Internet2, and evidently implemented a 
delay-based congestion control to emulate less-than best effort service 
inside BitTorrent.  Apparently it works well in that application 
(congested access links, where there are seconds of buffering, and you 
fight with yourself for the most part).  It's billed as part of a 
requirement for P2P apps (at least those that transfer lots of data).

The BOF actually came out of a peer to peer workshop in Boston sponsored 
by the IETF RAI area a month or two ago.

Introduction:
<http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tsv-area/current/msg00168.html>

BOF Agenda:
<http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/72/tana.html>

Meeting materials (presentations and eventually minutes):
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/72/materials.html>
(search for "TANA").

audio from the meeting should end up here:
<http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/pub/videolab/media/ietf72/ietf72-ch5-thu-noon.mp3>
(which will end up being a 150 or so meg file) (it's not there yet, so I 
can't verify I've got the right one... I'm basing it off of what's gone 
up so far this week).

and some jabber notes are here:
<http://jabber.ietf.org/logs/tana/2008-07-31.txt>

It looks like the IETF will probably start a working group to 
standardize the congestion control...

--Matt, was a scribe (natch')