Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I am not sure we are in sync, but it looks clsoe enough that proposed introductory text would be veyr helpful at this point. Yours, Joel On 7/13/2011 7:59 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 4:24 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I am not sure what you are asking. KARP is never concerned wi

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There may be a confusion of objectives. The WG and chairs do not expect the design guidelines document to achieve a degree of thoroughness such taht if one checks every item in there, and nothing else, then one will be able to do a complete analysis of a routing protocol. Rather, it is intended

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 4:24 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I am not sure what you are asking. KARP is never concerned with whether the party is authorized to send the information it is sending. Right - that's bullet 3. KARP is concerned with assuring that the information received is either the i

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I am not sure what you are asking. KARP is never concerned with whether the party is authorized to send the information it is sending. KARP is concerned with assuring that the information received is either the information sent, or recognizably NOT the information sent (so it can be discarded.)

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 2:26 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: You wording seems to induce confusion. Of course the routing message content is part of the message on-the-wire. It is the content of the message. It is in fact a significant part of what is being protected. What is NOT part of the scope, a

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
You wording seems to induce confusion. Of course the routing message content is part of the message on-the-wire. It is the content of the message. It is in fact a significant part of what is being protected. What is NOT part of the scope, and which the text says is not part of the scope, is

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 1:58 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I don't understand your description of the problem. As you quote, the document clearly states its scope. So, when we then define the term "on-the-wire", I don't think we need to restate the scope definition. It woudl seem coutner-productive.

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 1:44 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Sorry, I apparently missed part of your earlier note. Would text like: This document uses the term "on-the-wire" to talk about the information used by routing systems. This term is widely used in IETF RFCs,but is used in several different wa

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I don't understand your description of the problem. As you quote, the document clearly states its scope. So, when we then define the term "on-the-wire", I don't think we need to restate the scope definition. It woudl seem coutner-productive. Yours, Joel On 7/13/2011 2:58 PM, Joe Touch wrote:

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Sorry, I apparently missed part of your earlier note. Would text like: This document uses the term "on-the-wire" to talk about the information used by routing systems. This term is widely used in IETF RFCs,but is used in several different ways. In this document, it is used to refer both to

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/13/2011 11:34 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: As I said in my earlier note proposing responses to Joe, we would be happy to some text in the front clarifying the usage. Quoting from my earlier email: This text would note that it is a widely used term in IETF documents, including many RFCs. It

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 7/13/2011 2:34 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: As I said in my earlier note proposing responses to Joe, we would be happy to some text in the front clarifying the usage. Quoting from my earlier email: This text would note that it is a widely used term in IETF documents, including many RFCs. It wou

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
As I said in my earlier note proposing responses to Joe, we would be happy to some text in the front clarifying the usage. Quoting from my earlier email: This text would note that it is a widely used term in IETF documents, including many RFCs. It would also state for clarity that in this d

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 7/13/2011 1:31 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Replacing a widely used term ("on the wire") with term that folks will not understand does not seem to me personally to be a benefit. I think Joe's point is that it's widely used as a concept, but what it means specifically in this document is not cl

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 10:31 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Replacing a widely used term ("on the wire") with term that folks will not understand does not seem to me personally to be a benefit. The problem is that "on the wire" is ambiguous. Many people think they know what it means definitively,

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Replacing a widely used term ("on the wire") with term that folks will not understand does not seem to me personally to be a benefit. In terms of this document, I do not see a problem with the usage as it is. This is not a protocol document. The use of the current term in this context seems

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-12 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/12/2011 3:36 PM, Stewart Bryant wrote: On 12/07/2011 23:23, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, Joel (et al.), On 7/10/2011 7:10 AM, Joel Halpern wrote: Joe, THE KARP WG Chairs have reviewed your comments, in order to figure out what the best way to address them. We would appreciate it if you could en

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-12 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 12/07/2011 23:23, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, Joel (et al.), On 7/10/2011 7:10 AM, Joel Halpern wrote: Joe, THE KARP WG Chairs have reviewed your comments, in order to figure out what the best way to address them. We would appreciate it if you could engage in discussion of this proposal on the KARP

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-12 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Joel (et al.), On 7/10/2011 7:10 AM, Joel Halpern wrote: Joe, THE KARP WG Chairs have reviewed your comments, in order to figure out what the best way to address them. We would appreciate it if you could engage in discussion of this proposal on the KARP working group email list. If you feel

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-10 Thread Joel Halpern
Joe, THE KARP WG Chairs have reviewed your comments, in order to figure out what the best way to address them. We would appreciate it if you could engage in discussion of this proposal on the KARP working group email list. If you feel we are still not understanding your point, we would