TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions (tcpm)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2009-08-25

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Wesley Eddy  <weddy@grc.nasa.gov>
     David Borman  <david.borman@windriver.com>

 Transport Area Director(s):
     Magnus Westerlund  <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com>
     Lars Eggert  <lars.eggert@nokia.com>

 Transport Area Advisor:
     Lars Eggert  <lars.eggert@nokia.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:tcpm@ietf.org
     To Subscribe:      https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpm
     Archive:           http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/index.html

Description of Working Group:

No description available


 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         Submit FRTO draft to IESG for publication as an Experimental 
                RFC 

   Done         Submit TCP Roadmap document to IESG for publication as a Best 
                Current Practices RFC 

   Done         Submit NCR Reordering Mitigation draft to the IESG for 
                publication as an Experimental RFC 

   Done         Submit overview of spoofing attacks against TCP to IESG for 
                publication as an Informational RFC 

   Done         Submit User TimeOut option document to the IESG for publication 
                as a Proposed Standard RFC 

   Done         Submit SYN flooding document to the IESG for publication as an 
                Informational RFC 

   Done         Submit soft errors document to the IESG for publication as an 
                Informational RFC 

   Mar 2009       Submit In-Window Attack draft to IESG for publication as a 
                Proposed Standard RFC 

   Done         Submit ECN-SYN document to the IESG for publication as a 
                Proposed Standard RFC 

   Done         Submit revision of RFC 2581 to the IESG for publication as a 
                Draft Standard 

   Apr 2009       Submit TCP Authentication Option document to the IESG for 
                Proposed Standard RFC 

   Jul 2009       Submit ICMP attack document to the IESG for publication as an 
                Informational RFC 

   Jul 2009       Submit TCP Early-Retransmit document to the IESG for 
                Experimental RFC 

   Jul 2009       Submit update to RFC 1323 to the IESG for Proposed Standard RFC 

   Jul 2009       Submit MSS text revision originally from RFC 1323 appendix to 
                the IESG for Proposed Standard RFC 

   Jan 2010       Submit TCP Urgent Pointer draft to IESG for publication as a 
                Proposed Standard RFC 

   Aug 2010       Submit document on security hardening of TCP implementations to 
                the IESG for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Apr 2004 Sep 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-12.txt>
                Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks 

Feb 2006 Aug 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-06.txt>
                ICMP attacks against TCP 

Jun 2007 Oct 2008   <draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc4138bis-04.txt>
                Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting 
                Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP 

Nov 2007 Jul 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-auth-opt-05.txt>
                The TCP Authentication Option 

Mar 2009 Jul 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpmss-02.txt>
                TCP Options and MSS 

May 2009 May 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-urgent-data-00.txt>
                On the implementation of TCP urgent data 

Aug 2009 Aug 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-security-00.txt>
                Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) 

Sep 2009 Sep 2009   <draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-ao-crypto-00.txt>
                Cryptographic Algorithms, Use, & Implementation Requirments for 
                TCP Authentication Option 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC4138 E    Aug 2005    Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting 
                       Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream 
                       Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) 

RFC4653 E    Aug 2006    Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events 

RFC4614 I    Sep 2006    A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) 
                       Specification Documents 

RFC4953 I    Jul 2007    Defending TCP Against Spoofing Attacks 

RFC4987 I    Aug 2007    TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations 

RFC5461 I    Feb 2009    TCP's Reaction to Soft Errors 

RFC5482 PS   Mar 2009    TCP User Timeout Option 

RFC5562 E    Jun 2009    Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability 
                       to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets 

RFC5681 DS   Sep 2009    TCP Congestion Control