> On 24.3.2015, at 16.15, Margaret Wasserman <margaret...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand that this is a complex feature that would require quite a bit of > work to get right. There would also be work involved in standardizing the > IS-IS autoconf and IS-IS source-specific routing extensions. In addition, we > might want/need to standardize a mechanism for running IS-IS over IP. That > would be considerable amount of work. > > I don't think it is likely to be a lot of work, though, compared to the > effort to standardize Babel which would include: > > - Starting an IETF WG to do the work, and understanding that the WG would > have change control over Babel.
Why does it need WG? > - Substantial work to bring the spec up to the level of detail/clarity > required for and IETF protocol. More substantial than researching+standardizing some new IS-IS stuff? Editing documents is hard, but I thought not that hard. > - Consideration of many IETF requirements, perhaps most notably security > requirements. IS-IS is harder to secure than Babel. Both have HMAC-MD5 crap stuff, and Babel you can run with e.g. manual keyed IPsec, IS-IS you cannot. Hmm. > - Finding a second set of people who are willing to do a complete, > independent, fully-interoperable implementation. Well, I could find some weekend time if it is enough to kill this discussion. 40 page RFC cannot be _that_ hard to implement if the ‘big’ reference implementation is 10k LoC. > Personally, I think that Babel is an interesting Routing Protocol with > substantially different applicability than IS-IS, OSPF or BGP, and it might > be good to standardize it, whether Homenet adopts it or not. However, I > think that the time to do that would be a serious problem for Homenet because > of the time pressure to finalize a standard for Homenet. I wonder when do you think all of this IS-IS _research_, _standardization_ and _implementation_ would be done? Babel I can use _now_. Cheers, -Markus _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
