The ICCRG meeting at last week's IETF went = very well, as did a variety of live demos of fq_codel.

You can find the ICCRG slide sets here:

https://= datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/86/materials.html

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=A0and, though the sessions were= not video'ed by the IETF, Dave and I used our phones and may put some = low quality video up later.

See:=A0http://www.ietf.org/blog/

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https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/= A1seNKANmDg

My great thanks to Dave Taht and Comcast to pull off a live demo o= f bufferbloat helping drive bufferbloat's reality home to people. =A0Su= ch live demos are always a huge amount of work.

The tsvarea meeting resulted in consensus to work toward establishing = a working group and updated set of best practices and RFCs regarding AQM re= commendations. First up was establishing a new mailing list for "aqm&q= uot;, which can be joined here:

https://www.= ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/aqm

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Now is the = time to see how standards sausage is made!

Some advise was published= in the ICCRG meeting about how to proceed further:

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/86/slides/slides-86-iccrg-4.pdf=A0

Those of you familiar with RFC 2309 may know that it was informa= lly called the "RED manifesto", and aware that RED's shortcom= ings doomed it. But such a document (as a public statement of the IETF that= this problem must be urgently solved).

Fred Baker (who was IETF chair recently) just issued an init= ial internet draft:

http://datatracke= r.ietf.org/doc/draft-baker-aqm-recommendation/?include_text=3D1

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This one is intended to obsolete RFC2309, an= d is mostly RFC2309 with the old stuff ripped out, and not a lot of new add= ed. YET! Please join the AQM list to discuss what the new advice (AQM manif= esto) should look like.

Since multiple AQM algorithms can co-= exist (e.g. CoDel & PIE), and multiple flow queuing algorithms, we expe= ct that "one size fits all" is unlikely, but documenting them (so= that purchasing RFP's can reference them) and explaining their best ar= eas of use; best guess is we'll see a number of informational RFC's= and BCP's result, though standards track for the algorithms are not ou= t of the question.

The research and development in this area i= s still very young. =A0This is the beginning of a long road. As Matt Mathis= put it in the ICCRG meeting, the results (which you can see repeated in al= l the slide sets in the ICCRG meeting) are compelling, and it is important = to start the deployment process without years of optimization: seldom do yo= u see orders of magnitude improvement shown as everyone did at the meeting.=

I would like to thank all of you (and= Dave Taht, Kathy Nichols and Van Jacobson in particular) for helping us to= get to this point. =A0I started as a lone voice in the wilderness and felt= very alone. =A0

With all your help and support there is now= a growing chorus and we have billions of devices to deploy to, and many pr= oblems yet to solve.

Again, thanks to = all.

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