Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Joe Touch
> On Nov 30, 2018, at 2:57 PM, Tom Herbert wrote: > > ...student writing a quick UDP app in their dorm room to have to consider > all the pitfalls of fragmentation and whether they need to increase > their complexity by an order of magnitude to implement fragmentation > in their application.

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Tom Herbert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:39 PM Fred Baker wrote: > > > > On Nov 30, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Tom Herbert wrote: > > It's pretty obvious that fragmentation isn't currently feasible on the > > open Internet, but for other environments, like the datacenter, it may > > not only be relevant but desirable

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 30, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Tom Herbert wrote: > It's pretty obvious that fragmentation isn't currently feasible on the > open Internet, but for other environments, like the datacenter, it may > not only be relevant but desirable compared to other solutions. > > While the draft doesn't

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Tom Herbert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:43 AM Ron Bonica wrote: > > Inline.. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tom Herbert > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 2:13 PM > > To: Ron Bonica > > Cc: Ole Troan ; Joe Touch > > ; int-area > > Subject

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Ron Bonica
Inline.. > -Original Message- > From: Tom Herbert > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 2:13 PM > To: Ron Bonica > Cc: Ole Troan ; Joe Touch > ; int-area > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Ron

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Tom Herbert
> Ron > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ole Troan > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:46 PM > > To: Joe Touch > > Cc: Christian Huitema ; Ron Bonica > > ; int-area > > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-i

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Tom Herbert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:55 AM Joe Touch wrote: > > > > > On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Ole Troan wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 30 Nov 2018, at 18:33, Joe Touch wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Ole Troan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > On 30 Nov 2018, at 16:49, Joe Touch

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Ron Bonica
. Ron > -Original Message- > From: Ole Troan > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 12:46 PM > To: Joe Touch > Cc: Christian Huitema ; Ron Bonica > ; int-area > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 > > > > > On 30

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Joe Touch
> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Ole Troan wrote: > > > >> On 30 Nov 2018, at 18:33, Joe Touch wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Ole Troan wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 30 Nov 2018, at 16:49, Joe Touch wrote: 1) the lower down the fragmentation occurs, the less

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Ole Troan
> On 30 Nov 2018, at 18:33, Joe Touch wrote: > > > >> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Ole Troan wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 30 Nov 2018, at 16:49, Joe Touch wrote: >>> >>> 1) the lower down the fragmentation occurs, the less overhead is needed >>> (i.e., when performance is an issue, it’s

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Joe Touch
> On Nov 30, 2018, at 9:22 AM, Ole Troan wrote: > > > >> On 30 Nov 2018, at 16:49, Joe Touch wrote: >> >> 1) the lower down the fragmentation occurs, the less overhead is needed >> (i.e., when performance is an issue, it’s even more important to fragment as >> low as possible) > > That

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Ole Troan
> On 30 Nov 2018, at 16:49, Joe Touch wrote: > > 1) the lower down the fragmentation occurs, the less overhead is needed > (i.e., when performance is an issue, it’s even more important to fragment as > low as possible) That sounds like an unfounded myth. I would think it highly dependent

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Ron Bonica
), Fred L ; Ron Bonica > ; int-area > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 > > > If what you say were true, then we should all run everything over UDP and > skip TCP. There are two reasons to the contrary: > > 1) the lower down the fragmentation o

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Tom Herbert
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:42 AM Christian Huitema wrote: > > > > > On Nov 30, 2018, at 7:25 AM, Templin (US), Fred L > > wrote: > > > > Right, we have talked about that. A disadvantage is that the application > > framing headers need to be repeated in each UDP datagram, and when > > the

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Joe Touch
If what you say were true, then we should all run everything over UDP and skip TCP. There are two reasons to the contrary: 1) the lower down the fragmentation occurs, the less overhead is needed (i.e., when performance is an issue, it’s even more important to fragment as low as possible) 2)

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Christian Huitema
> On Nov 30, 2018, at 7:25 AM, Templin (US), Fred L > wrote: > > Right, we have talked about that. A disadvantage is that the application > framing headers need to be repeated in each UDP datagram, and when > the application headers are large the amount of room left for actual data > is

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-30 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
Hi Christian, > -Original Message- > From: Christian Huitema [mailto:huit...@huitema.net] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 3:41 PM > To: Templin (US), Fred L ; Fred Baker > > Cc: Ron Bonica ; int-area > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Tom Herbert
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:41 PM Christian Huitema wrote: > > On 11/29/2018 1:05 PM, Templin (US), Fred L wrote: > > > iperf3 is a real Internet application in the same way that ping, traceroute, > > tcpdump, etc. are real applications. It is a well-known tool that network > > engineers use on a

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Christian Huitema
On 11/29/2018 1:05 PM, Templin (US), Fred L wrote: > iperf3 is a real Internet application in the same way that ping, traceroute, > tcpdump, etc. are real applications. It is a well-known tool that network > engineers use on a daily basis and demonstrates that UDP performance > is highly

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Fred Baker
> On Nov 29, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Templin (US), Fred L > wrote: > > If you are referring to iperf3, that is exactly what it does (uses > fragmentation > to generate a high data rate), but I would not call it "artificial" - > fragmentation > is a real Internet service. But iperf3 is a

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Tom Herbert
18 1:08 PM > To: Joe Touch ; Stewart Bryant > > Cc: Ron Bonica ; int-area ; > intarea-cha...@ietf.org > Subject: RE: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 > > > > Hi, regardless of how old and obsolete NFSv2 is, the text in RFC1094 perfectly > > addresses t

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
ce in the above, they were referring to the DELQA. > > > > Fred > > > > From: Ron Bonica [mailto:rbon...@juniper.net] > > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 10:27 AM > > To: Templin (US), Fred L ; Joe Touch > > ; Stewart Bryant > > > Cc: int-area

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
: Ron Bonica [mailto:rbon...@juniper.net] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 10:27 AM To: Templin (US), Fred L ; Joe Touch ; Stewart Bryant Cc: int-area ; intarea-cha...@ietf.org Subject: RE: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 Fred, Without being too abrupt, there were

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Joe Touch
I would hope it would be evident from context, but sure. Joe > On Nov 29, 2018, at 8:37 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: > > > Either way it is useful to give the reviewer a heads up as to nits giving > errors and this being OK. > > S > >> On 29/11/2018 14:42, Joe Touch wrote: >> They don’t need

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Stewart Bryant
Either way it is useful to give the reviewer a heads up as to nits giving errors and this being OK. S On 29/11/2018 14:42, Joe Touch wrote: They don’t need to be deleted if you include them deliberately. There is no prohibition on citing such RFCs for your own documents historical

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Ron Bonica
To: Stewart Bryant Cc: Ron Bonica ; int-area ; intarea-cha...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 They don’t need to be deleted if you include them deliberately. There is no prohibition on citing such RFCs for your own documents historical background. Joe

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Joe Touch
They don’t need to be deleted if you include them deliberately. There is no prohibition on citing such RFCs for your own documents historical background. Joe > On Nov 29, 2018, at 4:06 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: > > But, always worth including a "do be deleted" note to the reviewers to stop >

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-29 Thread Stewart Bryant
But, always worth including a "do be deleted" note to the reviewers to stop then all sending in feedback about the nits failure. Stewart On 27/11/2018 20:42, Joe Touch wrote: FWIW: On 2018-11-27 12:22, Ron Bonica wrote: Fred, If the NFSv2 and iPERF issues are not blocking, I would like

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Joe Touch
FWIW: On 2018-11-27 12:22, Ron Bonica wrote: > Fred, > > If the NFSv2 and iPERF issues are not blocking, I would like to omit them. > The following are rational: > > ... > - Mechanically, it is difficult to reference an RFC that has been obsoleted > in an internet draft. The NIT checker

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Ron Bonica
Ron > -Original Message- > From: Templin (US), Fred L > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 2:57 PM > To: Ron Bonica ; Tom Herbert > > Cc: int-area ; intarea-cha...@ietf.org > Subject: RE: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 > > Hi Ron, > > &g

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
Hi Ron, > In your mind, are these blocking issues? I don’t have an opinion about “blocking”, but IMHO the recommendations contribute to the completeness of the document. Thanks - Fred ___ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Ron Bonica
Fred, In your mind, are these blocking issues? Ron From: Templin (US), Fred L Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:47 PM To: Ron Bonica ; Tom Herbert Cc: int-area ; intarea-cha...@ietf.org Subject: RE: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
? Thanks - Fred From: Ron Bonica [mailto:rbon...@juniper.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 10:03 AM To: Tom Herbert ; Templin (US), Fred L Cc: int-area ; intarea-cha...@ietf.org Subject: RE: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 Fred, I am happy to add a section about LTP. However, I

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Ron Bonica
> > > -Original Message- > > From: Int-area [mailto:int-area-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Templin > > (US), Fred L > > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 8:47 AM > > To: Ron Bonica ; int-area ; > > intarea-cha...@ietf.org > > Subject: Re: [Int-ar

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Tom Herbert
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:47 AM Templin (US), Fred L < fred.l.temp...@boeing.com> wrote: > Hi Ron, > > There needs to be a new subsection in Section 6 on UDP applications that > rely on IP fragmentation for greater performance. Here is proposed text: > > "Some UDP applications rely on IP

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-27 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
(US), > Fred L > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 8:47 AM > To: Ron Bonica ; int-area ; > intarea-cha...@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03 > > Hi Ron, > > There needs to be a new subsection in Section 6 on UDP applications

Re: [Int-area] draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-03

2018-11-21 Thread Templin (US), Fred L
Hi Ron, There needs to be a new subsection in Section 6 on UDP applications that rely on IP fragmentation for greater performance. Here is proposed text: "Some UDP applications rely on IP fragmentation to achieve acceptable levels of performance. These applications use UDP datagram sizes that