There are places where we see a possible fit for some of this that pertain to 
special-use Internetworks that may or may not connect to what we think of as 
the global public Internet. Space-based networking, civil aviation, tactical 
networks, data centers, others but as you say with the Internet to follow. We 
recently gave talks on this subject at the IEEE SMC-IT STINT workshop and 
Netdev 0x18 conferences that drew good discussion. So, we do see some passion 
for the subject.

From: Robinson, Herbie <Herbie.Robinson=40stratus....@dmarc.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 4:09 PM
To: Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org>; Templin (US), Fred L 
<fred.l.temp...@boeing.com>; Hesham ElBakoury <helbako...@gmail.com>
Cc: Internet Area <Int-area@ietf.org>; IPv6 List <i...@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: [Int-area] Re: IP Parcels and Advanced Jumbos (AJs)

I think what we need to see is an overall view of how this is going to expand 
MTU across the Internet or at least at first in intranets (with the Internet to 
follow), not specs for little pieces of it.  That and some indication that 
there is buy-in for this among hardware vendors.  This has been a glaring 
problem for decades, but no hardware vendor seems to want to go first.


From: Paul Vixie 
<paul=40redbarn....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:paul=40redbarn....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 6:53 PM
To: Templin (US), Fred L 
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 Hesham ElBakoury <helbako...@gmail.com<mailto:helbako...@gmail.com>>
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Internet Area <Int-area@ietf.org<mailto:Int-area@ietf.org>>; IPv6 List 
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Subject: [Int-area] Re: IP Parcels and Advanced Jumbos (AJs)

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Perhaps a plenary slot in Dublin where we can make the case?

p vixie

On Sep 24, 2024 17:00, Hesham ElBakoury 
<helbako...@gmail.com<mailto:helbako...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Fred,
My impression is that this topic has not received strong support in IETF. If 
this is true, then how you plan to change IETF position?

Thanks
Hesham

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 1:44 PM Templin (US), Fred L 
<Fred.L.Templin=40boeing....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40boeing....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
 wrote:
Thanks Paul, as you know well the Internet has come a long way since the days 
of FDDI but has
not done very well at accommodating packet size diversity. We can and should do 
better, IMO.

Fred

From: Paul Vixie 
<paul=40redbarn....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40redbarn....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 12:59 PM
To: Templin (US), Fred L 
<fred.l.temp...@boeing.com<mailto:fred.l.temp...@boeing.com>>; Internet Area 
<Int-area@ietf.org<mailto:Int-area@ietf.org>>; IPv6 List 
<i...@ietf.org<mailto:i...@ietf.org>>
Subject: Re: [Int-area] IP Parcels and Advanced Jumbos (AJs)

Something like this is long needed and will become badly needed. Every 10X of 
speed increase since 10mbit/sec has gone straight to PPS, whereas the speed 
increase from 3mbit/sec to 10mbit/sec was shared between PPS and MTU.

If every 10X has been shared between PPS and MTU, say sqrt(10) for each, our 
MTU would be well over 64K by now and our PPS wouldn't require dedicated NPU 
hardware to source, sink, and ferry those packets at link saturation levels.

Every attempt at PMTUD so far has failed but that's not an excuse to stop 
trying.

Thanks for driving this Fred.

p vixie

On Sep 24, 2024 14:39, "Templin (US), Fred L" 
<Fred.L.Templin=40boeing....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:Fred.L.Templin=40boeing....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
 wrote:
It has been a while since I have posted about this, and there are some updates 
to highlight.
See below for the IPv6 and IPv4 versions of “IP Parcels and Advanced Jumbos 
(AJs)”:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-parcels2/<https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nvtfCpYLPYtA5Nq6IPf7CGmc38/>
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-intarea-parcels2/<https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/22qtCqxL9xSX9PnwHXh8CEu4yp/>

The documents acknowledge that parcels are analogous to Generic Segment/Receive 
Offload
(GSO/GRO) but taken to the ultimate aspiration of encapsulating multi-segment 
buffers in
{TCP/UDP}/IP headers for transmission over parcel-capable network paths. They 
further give
a name to the multi-segment buffers used by GSO/GRO, suggesting that they be 
called
“parcel buffers” or simply “parcels”.

AJs are simply single-segment parcels that can range in size from very small to 
very large.
They differ from ordinary jumbograms in several important ways, most notably in 
terms
of integrity verification and error correction. They also suggest a new link 
service model
that defers integrity checks to the end systems where bad data can be discarded 
while
good data can be accepted as an end-to-end function, reducing retransmissions.

Together, these documents cover all possible packet sizes and configurations 
that may
be necessary both in the near term and for the foreseeable future for 
Internetworking
performance maximization . Comments on the list(s) are welcome.

Fred Templin
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