>>> "The inclusion of physical layer characteristics including bandwidth, >>> loss, and latency in path computation should be considered for >>> optimising communication in the homenet."
> Should the text then rather say "Path selection in Homenet needs to be > more sophisticated than measuring pure hop count due to the use of > heterogeneous link technologies, and therefore the routing protocol should > be capable of utilising multiple link-dependent metrics, such as > bandwidth, delay, and link reliability", rather than mentioning > "optimised"? I'm happy with either. The current text leaves it to the protocol people to decide what "optimising" means, but I also like the way you spell out the requirement. If you'll allow me to indulge in some minor nit picking wrt. your suggested wording: - you require "multiple [...] metrics", which is what we do in Babel, but we certainly don't wish to prevent somebody from being smart enough to design a single metric that works satisfactorily on all link layers; - you use "bandwdith" where you mean "throughput" (yeah, I know, I'm a pedant); - I'm on a personal crusade against the utilisation of the verb "to utilise". So perhaps something like: Due to the use of heterogeneous link technologies, path selection in a homenet needs to be more refined than minimising hop count. The homenet routing protocol should be able to select paths according to criteria such as latency, throughput, link reliability (e.g. measured packet loss) or other performance metrics. -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
