I-D Action: draft-ietf-intarea-reordering-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-ietf-intarea-reordering-00.txt is now available. It is a
work item of the Internet Area Working Group (INTAREA) WG of the IETF.

   Title:   Proposal for Updates to Guidance on Packet Reordering
   Authors: Greg White
            Ingemar Johansson
            Dibakar Das
            Chris Box
   Name:    draft-ietf-intarea-reordering-00.txt
   Pages:   12
   Dates:   2026-08-27

Abstract:

   Several link technology standards mandate that equipment guarantee
   in-order delivery of layer 2 frames, apparently due to a belief that
   this is required by higher layer protocols.  To meet this requirement
   they implement a "resequencing" operation to restore the original
   packet order.  This can introduce delays that result in net
   degradation of performance.  Modern TCP and QUIC implementations
   support features that significantly improve their tolerance to out-
   of-order delivery.  This draft is intended to provide new information
   for layer 2 technology standards regarding the need to assure in-
   order delivery to support IETF protocols.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-reordering/

There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-intarea-reordering-00.html

Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts


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