On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 10:13:04PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > On 8/7/19 9:53 PM, Erik Nygren wrote: > > > Design choices being made in QUIC or other protocols that result in > > measurably > > higher CPU usage on servers and/or network devices and/or clients has > > a direct impact on their energy consumption. There may be > > conversations to be > > had as to whether a few percent performance improvement, or some small > > privacy improvement, is always worth the added power utilization. > > Is there any ongoing effort in or near IETF to compare the energy > consumption of implementation of new protocols with that of existing > protocols? I don't think there's an ongoing effort, but we have seen localized efforts. (For example, power consumption was a topic at the LAKE BoF in Montreal, and in general shows up more often for discussions involving constrained devices than feature-ful devices, at present.) -Ben > Maybe some RFCs need an Energy Considerations section? This isn't > solely related to consumption from the grid, as mobile devices also have > tight energy budgets. > > Keith > >
