Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

After much thought, I have settled on the following: Rationale: support for wireless transit links is a distinguishing feature of Homenet, and one that is requested by our users. In the absence of dynamically computed metrics, the routing protocol attempts to minimise the

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

Juliusz Chroboczek writes: >> we are writing a standards document, not a 19th century romance novel > > It is a truth generally acknowledged that a single man in possession of > a good fortune must be in want of a home network. Ah yes, much better. I for one believe it prudent to

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

> we are writing a standards document, not a 19th century romance novel It is a truth generally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a home network. ___ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

Juliusz Chroboczek writes: >>> This is not the notion that I tried to express, probably badly. It's not >>> necessarily the important feature, it's the one that will make people >>> implement and deploy the protocol stack in the first place. > >> Suggestion for '"killer feature"

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

>> This is not the notion that I tried to express, probably badly. It's not >> necessarily the important feature, it's the one that will make people >> implement and deploy the protocol stack in the first place. > Suggestion for '"killer feature" of Homenet': driver for using Homenet That's

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

> > Perhaps I could suggest something in the vein of "very important" or > > "much desired feature" > > This is not the notion that I tried to express, probably badly. It's not > necessarily the important feature, it's the one that will make people > implement and deploy the protocol stack in

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

> I too think the rationale is important but the phrasing may be confusing. > Being > a native speaker of U.S. English (and almost fluent in Southern Californiaese > ;-) I found the colloquialisms confusing. Being myself a native speaker of an Eastern-European dialect with way too many

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

Minor issues: Rationale: support for wireless transit links is a "killer feature" of Homenet, something that is requested by our users and easy to explain to our bosses. In the absence of dynamically SB> Not sure explicability to your boss counts for much as a basis for

Re: [homenet] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-05

> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. Thanks for your comments, Stewart. > if implementations use conflicting route selection policies, > persistent oscillations might occur. SB> Is this consistent with the statement earlier in the para that SB> " Distinct SB>