> The lack of data and analysis in this week's presentations was extremely > disturbing.
In considering protocol solutions to performance problems it is often very difficult to come to consensus because: a. Performance data is often highly dependent on the implementations being studied, and therefore it is often unclear whether the conclusions hold universally. b. There are often multiple solutions available to the problem, some of which will perform better than others in given use cases. Without agreement on the use cases, it can therefore be difficult to agree which solutions are superior, even if the performance data itself is unassailable (which is itself rare). The end result of this is that in practice, standards bodies often face the choice of waiting for completion of a protracted requirements/performance test development phase, or allowing work to proceed without a solid basis, under the theory that "the market will sort it out". While the latter approach frequently results in solutions in search of a problem, this may at times be preferrable to deadlock. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
