On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 02:54:27PM -0400, Jari Arkko wrote: > I think it is an interesting topic and very much on topic for us to > think about. And a topic where potential savings could be significant. IT > is a huge energy consumer (as well as a producer of short-lived > gadgets). IT also has the potential to help optimise many non-IT > processes, and therefore directly reduce energy consumption and waste. I'm completely in favor of both of these, but suggest that it may be more appropriate for the IETF to focus on the former than the latter. I think it might be the place where the most aggregate (IETF) expertise can be brought to bear. With that in mind, I think a good starting point would be a discussion of metrics: how do we measure -- for example -- the energy cost of a file transfer over HTTP vs FTP? How do we measure the difference between a DNS SOA query over IPv4 vs. IPv6? And so on. I suspect that rather a lot of work needs to be done on measurement before we can begin thinking about what could be improved/changed to cut energy costs. (If there is published work in this space and I'm unaware of it, please feel free to hit me with the cluestick and I'll go read it.) ---rsk
