Re: RFC 6926

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> writes:

> Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> writes:
>
>>      Hello,
>>
>> it seems that NetBSD's TCP implementation still follows RFC 3390
>> and uses 4 as the initial TCP congestion window size.
>>
>> RFC 6928 increased the the initial size to 10. Is there any reason
>> not to change NetBSD's default accordingly?
>
> That's EXPERIMENTAL, not PROPOSED STANDARD.  What do the standards
> track congestion control documents say about actually doing it (vs an
> experimental RFC)?

Also, what do other BSDs and Solaris do?