Re: [manet] IETF last call and review of draft-cardenas-dff-09.txt

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AB,

as said to Jiazi, the text already has some recommendations of
constraints for the parameters (and I will add the sentence I
suggested to Jiazi). I am unsure what additional text you would like
to see.

Best regards
Ulrich

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Abdussalam Baryun
<abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Ulrich,
>
> I agree with Jiazi, that you need to provide values of parameters for
> the experiment I-D, or some default recommendations. I think it is
> important but your text proposed does not follow the request of
> parameters values,
>
> AB
>
> On 2/11/13, Ulrich Herberg <ulrich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Jiazi,
>>
>> thank you very much for your review. I am glad that the latest
>> revision addresses your previous concerns.
>>
>> As to your suggestion, I agree that having some constraints is useful.
>> To your suggestion considering the number of routers in the DFF
>> domain, I think this would be difficult to use normative language, as
>> the number of routers may not be known (e.g. when not using a
>> proactive routing protocol). DFF does not mandate to have this
>> information at hand.
>> Another example of setting the value would be to depend on the
>> expected path length (e.g. based on information from the routing
>> protocol). It may, e.g., be reasonable to set a MAX_HOP_LIMIT that is,
>> say, 50% longer than the distance in hops indicated by a routing
>> protocol. I think that it would be very interesting to find out
>> appropriate values as experiments for the protocol (given that the
>> document is Experimental).
>>
>> How about adding the following text to MAX_HOP_LIMIT:
>>
>> ----- added text ------
>> Finding optimal values for MAX_HOP_LIMIT is part of experiments that
>> can be performed with the protocol proposed in this document.
>> For example, one possible experiment would be to set MAX_HOP_LIMIT to
>> different factors of the expected path length to the destination in
>> number of hops if provided by a routing protocol.
>> ---------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Ulrich
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Jiazi Yi <ietf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I had a through review of dff-07 with detailed comments. In the new
>>> revision, my questions and concerns have been properly addressed -- thanks
>>> to all the authors.
>>>
>>> The mechanism is well documented, and I have tested the protocol in the
>>> scenarios described in the applicability statement, which brings
>>> interesting performance improvement.
>>>
>>> Therefore, I would like to encourage the publication of it.
>>>
>>> Just one more comment:
>>>
>>>         o In section 8 Protocol Parameters, it would be better to have
>>> some limitations or recommendations for those parameters. For P_HOLD_TIME,
>>> I think it's OK by saying "at least be MAX_HOP_LIMIT times  the expected
>>> time to send a Packet to a router on the same link.". It would be event
>>> better to give such limitations to MAX_HOP_LIMIT. A regular value related
>>> to NET_DIAMETER won't work, because DFF can have significant higher hop
>>> count and result in packet drop. Maybe we can have something like "it MUST
>>> NOT be higher than the number of routers in the DFF routing domain. If the
>>> number of routers is greater than 255, it is set to 255 by default."
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> Jiazi
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> > draft-cardenas-dff is under consideration for publication as an
>>> > AD-sponsored individual submission Experimental RFC.  I agreed to
>>> > sponsor it for publication because it doesn't really fit in any existing
>>> > working groups and the requested publication status is Experimental.  As
>>> > part of the review process, the document is in a 2-week IETF last call.
>>> > The last call announcement is included below.  To ensure the quality of
>>> > the document, it would be helpful to get reviews from manet WG
>>> > participants (posted to the ietf@xxxxxxxx discussion list).
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>>> > - Ralph
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > =====
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to
>>> > consider
>>> > the following document:
>>> > - 'Depth-First Forwarding in Unreliable Networks (DFF)'
>>> > <draft-cardenas-dff-09.txt> as Experimental RFC
>>> >
>>> > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>>> > final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
>>> > ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2013-02-24. Exceptionally, comments may
>>> > be
>>> > sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the
>>> > beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
>>> >
>>> > Abstract
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >  This document specifies the "Depth-First Forwarding" (DFF) protocol
>>> >  for IPv6 networks, a data forwarding mechanism that can increase
>>> >  reliability of data delivery in networks with dynamic topology and/or
>>> >  lossy links.  The protocol operates entirely on the forwarding plane,
>>> >  but may interact with the routing plane.  DFF forwards data packets
>>> >  using a mechanism similar to a "depth-first search" for the
>>> >  destination of a packet.  The routing plane may be informed of
>>> >  failures to deliver a packet or loops.  This document specifies the
>>> >  DFF mechanism both for IPv6 networks (as specified in RFC2460) and in
>>> >  addition also for LoWPAN "mesh-under" networks (as specified in
>>> >  RFC4944).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The file can be obtained via
>>> > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cardenas-dff/
>>> >
>>> > IESG discussion can be tracked via
>>> > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cardenas-dff/ballot/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
>>> >
>>> >  http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1645/
>>> >  http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1646/
>>> >
>>> >
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