Post Sockets at IETF 97
26 November 2016
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I gave a presentation on
Transport Services for Low-Latency Real-Time Applications to the
TAPS working group at IETF 97 in Seoul, South Korea, on 26 November
2017. This discussed our recently submitted
Internet-draft of the same name, which describes the set of
transport services required by low-latency, real-time applications,
derived from the needs of the applications, rather than from the
current capabilities of the transport layer.
The talk and Internet-draft review the needs of low-latency real-time
applications, such as telephony, video conferencing, and video streaming,
and from these needs derive a corresponding set of transport services,
i.e., protocol components, that are needed by these applications. This
is essentially interpreting the results of our recent
IRTF ANRW paper in a form appropriate for the IETF standards
community.
Brian Trammell was scheduled to give a talk on
Post Sockets: a way to think about the world after sockets at the
same meeting, but this was greatly curtailed due to lack of time. The
goal was to outline our Post Sockets work, and solicit feedback from
the working group. There was general agreement that while Post Sockets,
and our requirements work, was not yet ready for adoption as an IETF
working group item, it is of interest to the TAPS group.