Yes, I agree with this, that DCCP is recommended but only if it is available (which I do not expect it to be:-) so update to s.6, leave s.5 alone.
Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Lonvick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:19 PM Subject: [Syslog] Issue 8 - Tim Polk DISCUSS > Issue 8 - Tim Polk DISCUSS > > Discuss: > There seems to be an essential disconnect between the conformance > rquirements and the deployment guidance in this specification > > The second paragraph of Section 6 Congestion Control states: > > DCCP has congestion control. For this reason the syslog over DTLS > over DCCP option is recommended in preference to the syslog over the > DTLS over UDP option. > > However, in Section 5.1, Transport > > DTLS can run over multiple transports. Implementations of this > specification MUST support DTLS over UDP and SHOULD support DTLS over > DCCP [RFC5238]. > > For alignment with Section 6, it would seem that "MUST support DTLS over > DCCP" would be more appropriate. > > Proposed resolution by Sean: > vvv > As noted by Lars (before my time on either the IESG or syslog list): > > If DCCP is available (not usually the case) running DTLS over it is > trivial, so you could also make this a MUST. DCCP support itself is > obviously not a MUST. > > Maybe what we really ought to be saying is Section 6 (which is just > about congestion control): > > DCCP has congestion control. For this reason when DCCP is available, > syslog over DTLS over DCCP is recommended in preference to the syslog > over the DTLS over UDP option. > > and we leave Section 5 alone? > ^^^ > > Tim Polk responded: > vvv > I will defer to Lars on this one. Since we can't make DCCP support a > MUST, your suggested text for Section 6 would resolve what remains of my > issue. > ^^^ > > ACTION: Authors to review proposed resolution and discuss on list. > > _______________________________________________ > Syslog mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
