On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Terry Manderson wrote:
Secondly, I am asking the DT to seek clarifications from the workgroup
on the routing requirements as highlighted on Wednesday. This will
output a draft that HOMENET might consider adopting as a WG item to
improve its document state and universal understanding.
I doubt we'll get consensus on the requirements for the routing protocol,
as the babel proponents seem to envision a homenet with really bad wifi
which needs a protocol such as babel to handle this problem, and others,
who see a more stable homenet which a linkstate protcol such as ISIS can
handle just fine.
So as the design team already has discovered and was presented in the
meeting, there is no consensus on this point. So asking the WG again, I
don't see how this would help.
One group sees the homenet consisting of a bunch of "ad-hoc" wifi links
with dubious quality and working part of the time, another group sees the
homenet consisting of (fairly) reliable links that can be used for real
time communication and high speed communication that works "all the time".
These visions are not compatible, the requirements that fall out of these
visions are not compatible, and this is why we have this stale-mate.
My drive here is to follow due process in reaching a point where the DT
can, by Yokohama, either:
- make a defensible recommendation based on the already stated criteria
or
- present a summary of why a single selection cannot be made at this
time.
While this seems like a delay, I will be speaking with the WG chairs on
the implications.
Someone needs to put the foot down and choose. Either you choose IETF
process as a tie-breaker, in which case ISIS is the obvious choice, or you
choose some other tie-breaker and then it might be another choice or no
choice.
In the meantime I hope you continue your development work, continually
reflect on the state of code versus specification, and work hard on
interop efforts, and gain more experience.
There will be ISIS "homenet compliant" code by yokohama that has passed
commercially available ISIS compliancy testing suites, and there will be
two implementations written in two different programming languages both
passing these tests.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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