On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:24 PM, marcelo bagnulo braun <[email protected]>
wrote:

> El 01/08/14 21:59, Eric Rescorla escribió:
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>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:54 PM, marcelo bagnulo braun <
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>     El 01/08/14 21:07, ianG escribió:
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>>         On 1/08/2014 16:24 pm, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:
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>>             El 01/08/14 14:17, ianG escribió: Marcelo wrote:
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>>                     As we discussed in the meeting, we should try to
>>                     make some design
>>                     decisions for TCPINC.
>>                     One of them is whether to protect or not the TCP
>>                     header.
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>>                 is clearly, not to decide.  The charter should leave
>>                 the level of TCP
>>                 header protection open.  May the best proposal win.
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>>             No.
>>             We are chartered to define one and only one standard for this.
>>             We would be doing a poor service to the community if we
>>             can decide and
>>             leave someone else the burden to figure out which is the
>>             approach to use.
>>             So the tcpinc wg should define one specification for this,
>>             not many.
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>>         I agree.  May the best proposal win:  choose the one that best
>>         serves
>>         the overall needs of competing proposals.
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>>         It's already clear from the proposals that there will be differing
>>         approaches and capabilities.  Set a deadline, pick one.
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>>     Right, this is the plan.
>>     The deadline we are aiming for to pick a proposal is november
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>> I do think it is helpful to discuss the requirements the proposals are
>> aiming to hit, however. That way people can adjust their proposals
>> to meet the relevant needs.
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> Right, this is what we are doing at this stage. However, this process
> needs to be fast enough (i.e. i dont think it is a good use of our energy
> to spend 5 years discussing requirements and get people to tune their
> proposals accordingly especially since after 5 years of tunning the
> proposals are likely to be very similar and selection is impossible)
>

Agreed.



> So, i think having a goal of selecting an approach in the next few months
> that we can start working and improving is a reasonable goal, makes sense?
>

Yes. My understanding was that we had agreed to try do this in Honolulu.
I think that's a good plan.

-Ekr


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