From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 22:33:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 22:33:00 -0400 Received: from shell.cyberus.ca ([209.195.95.7]:32682 "EHLO shell.cyberus.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 8 May 2001 22:32:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:31:23 -0400 (EDT) From: jamal To: cc: , , Sally Floyd , , Subject: ECN: Volunteers needed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Folks, ECN is about to become a Proposed Standard RFC. Thanks to efforts from the Linux community, a few issues were discovered in the course of deploying the code. Special kudos go to Alexey Kuznetsov and David Miller. I wont go into details of the issues other than to say some midlle-box vendors in the past have associated the semantics of the natural-language English word "reserved" to have a different meaning. visit Jeff Garzik's ECN-under-Linux Unofficial Vendor Support Page at: http://gtf.org/garzik/ecn/ for more details Sally Floyd explains best why it is wrong for vendors of middle boxes to be doing this in the draft to be found at: ftp://ftp.normos.org/ietf/internet-drafts/draft-floyd-tcp-reset-00.txt So why am i posting this? This is to solicit volunteers who will help removing the remaining cruft. Some vendors (special positive mention goes to CISCO) have released patches which are unfortunately not being propagated by some of the site owners. Help is needed to contact these site owners and politely using a standard email ask them that their site was non-conformant. Point them to Sally's draft and the fact that ECN is becoming standard in the next week or so. Also to Jeff's ECN-under-Linux Unofficial Vendor Support Page, and to encourage them to have their firewall or load-balancer upgraded. I suppose the first volunteer needed is to draft such an email. We have to be polite and persistent for this to work. Jitendra Padhye at ACIRI is running weekly tests to detect offending sites. Most recent results can be found at: http://www.aciri.org/tbit/ecn_test3A.html Any site with the word "RST" on the line should be considered non-conformant. Volunteers please send an email to ecn@gtf.org with subject "interested in volunteering" Flames etc please redirect to netdev (since that's the only list i am on). as well make sure you cc the other people (other than linux-kernel and linux-net) cheers, jamal