RFC 2309 · INFORMATIONAL · 1998

Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

Overview

RFC 2309, “Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet”, is an Informational document published in April 1998 by B. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang. It has since been updated by RFC 7141. It has been obsoleted by RFC 7567 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

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

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What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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Relationships to other RFCs
Obsoleted by
RFC 7567
Updated by
RFC 7141
Other RFCs from 1998

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