Sorry, all, but as engaging as this discussion is, I really don't think
we should be having it on this distro.
The authors need to make the case to the TSVWG (?) that this needs to
become a WG doc, and then we can all scrutinize/optimize it in public.
I propose that we cease further analysis prior to that.
Joe
On 3/18/2014 9:14 AM, joel jaeggli wrote:
On 3/16/14, 7:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I've re-read this document, and I am still puzzled by why the IETF is
considering a standard for this.
Fundamentally this is a simple change. It could be easilly implemented -
many of us already have some simple window-based UDP transfer protocol
like this that we use as a hack for specific cases where something strange
is needed.
On the other hand I'm aware of a least two implementations of tftp with
a window scale function. It's maybe in the interests of clients and
server implementations to interoperate.
However, I do not see a use-case where it is wise to
standardise this - I'd urge the community to re-think this:
First, TFTP is an old protocol, and mostly FTP, NFS, SMB, and others have
replaced this for Internet use over TCP - at least we should acknowledge
that using TFTP in the general Internet is NOT RECOMMENDED - probablty
one reason why we as a community have not standardised this. This use-case
is not clear, why can FTP over TCP (or at least a minimal TCP) not be
used?
I don't really a lot of use cases outside of scoped domains for tftp, I
wouldn't use it on the internet at large, it is however widely
implemented and relatively ubiquitous with respect to usage. devices
need to boot-strap and when they do recourse to an unatheticated to
resource demand facility is desirable.
