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Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

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Network Working Group                                 B. Braden, USC/ISI
Request for Comments: 2309                             D. Clark, MIT LCS
Category: Informational                                J. Crowcroft, UCL
                                                 B. Davie, Cisco Systems
                                               S. Deering, Cisco Systems
                                                          D. Estrin, USC
                                                          S. Floyd, LBNL
                                                       V. Jacobson, LBNL
                                                  G. Minshall, Fiberlane
                                                       C. Partridge, BBN
                                      L. Peterson, University of Arizona
                                      K. Ramakrishnan, ATT Labs Research
                                                  S. Shenker, Xerox PARC
                                                  J. Wroclawski, MIT LCS
                                                          L. Zhang, UCLA
                                                              April 1998



     Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance
                            in the Internet



Status of Memo

      This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It
      does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution
      of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

      Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

      This memo presents two recommendations to the Internet community
      concerning measures to improve and preserve Internet performance.
      It presents a strong recommendation for testing, standardization,
      and widespread deployment of active queue management in routers,
      to improve the performance of today's Internet.  It also urges a
      concerted effort of research, measurement, and ultimate deployment
      of router mechanisms to protect the Internet from flows that are
      not sufficiently responsive to congestion notification.







Braden, et. al.              Informational
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