From: Carlos Pignataro (cpignata) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 10:57 PM
To: Xuxiaohu
Cc: Wassim Haddad; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Int-area] Call for adoption of draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp-03

Xiaohu,

Please see inline.

On May 30, 2016, at 6:09 AM, Xuxiaohu 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Carlos

From: Int-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlos Pignataro 
(cpignata)
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2016 10:34 PM
To: Wassim Haddad
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Int-area] Call for adoption of draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp-03

Wasim, Juan Carlos,

Back to your original request, I do not support adoption of 
draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp. I also did not support draft-xu-softwire-ip-in-udp.

I do not believe there’s a case for this new tunnel type. I also believe that a 
deeper look at the potential problem space can yield better solutions, as 
opposed to a solution looking for a problem.

The problem associated with the LB approach as proposed in 
[RFC5640<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5640>] is obvious.

Obviousness implies some qualitative form of value judgement. As a technical 
term, it falls largely short. If you feel it is obvious, and you feel t’s 
important, make it so, because it is not.


RFC7510 proposes to use UDP tunnels instead of GRE or L2TPv3 tunnels to carry 
MPLS traffic so as to provide fine-grained load balancing of MPLS traffic over 
well-managed IP networks (by leveraging the widely supported UDP-based LB 
capability). It seems that you are a proponent of the above rationale as you 
are a contributor of that RFC. Now draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp just extends that 
rationale to another well-managed IP network environment(i.e., Softwires 
network). Why that rationale becomes “a solution looking for a problem” 
suddenly?  Does the efficiency of GRE key or L2TPv3 session ID based LB 
approaches as proposed by RFC5640 depend on the payload type of those tunnels?



Best regards,

Xiaohu

You mention RFC 5640. We seem to have managed since 2009 (publishing date) 
without a new tunnel type. But more importantly, RFC 5640 concerns itself with 
a different problem space: augmenting BGP signaling, not defining a new tunnel 
type and UDP port.

Thanks,

— Carlos.


In other words, there is no need for looking for at all. With regard to whether 
or not the IP-in-UDP encapsulation is the best solution to that problem, it is 
another thing.

Xiaohu


Thanks,

— Carlos Pignataro.



On May 19, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Wassim Haddad 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear all,

The authors of draft-xu-intarea-ip-in-udp-03 (“Encapsulating IP in UDP”) have 
requested that the working group adopt this work as a WG work item.
So far, WG chairs have not seen widespread support and considering that lack of 
opposition does not qualify as support, we’re starting a working group adoption 
call until June 3rd.

If you consider that the draft should be adopted as a WG work item, please 
indicate the reason.


Regards,

Wassim & Juan Carlos




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