Directions in Internet Transport Evolution

A the Transport Area Open Meeting at IETF 70, area directors Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert noted that their queues are empty and that several Transport Area working groups are nearing completion. It may therefore be an opportune time to step back and consider possible directions for new projects in the Transport Area. !is article summarises some of the ideas presented and discussed at that meeting, and it attempts to synthesise those ideas into an outline that describes a number of potentially promising directions for future Transport Area work. Identifying a complete shopping list of issues or work areas was not the goal of the meeting, nor is it the goal of this article. Instead, what follows can be best described as a cross section of possibilities.